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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by possession It's Nine tenths of

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the law and utterly irrelevant if you have a roommate

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All right First read sense below from a job application

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letter and your work All right now click the drop

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down menu and choose the option that correctly completes the

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sentence Way Possessive They're important because sometimes something belongs to

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something else And the way we signal a possessive is

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through an apostrophe No we're not referring to the literary

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idea of apostrophe where someone addresses an imaginary entity Well

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we're referring to this thing and you stick it into

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words to convey possession in the sentence In the question

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the student media group is part of the university so

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we should use the possessive apostrophe Kes Answer See Does

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not use the possessive apostrophe It's Not even a word

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so points off for terrible spelling And answer a isn't

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a possessive form of university It's Just the words plural

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No this isn't correct We're not trying to fleur allies

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anything Answer B does use the possessive but it's the

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possessive of the plural word Universities were only referring to

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a single university Here It'd be pretty weird if the

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student media group somehow belong multiple universities But he gives

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us the correct possessive of the singular word university So

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d is The correct answer is in possession fun Now

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if only we could get our roommate to understand the 00:01:44.895 --> [endTime] concept really needs to stop using your power

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