Which is correct, please. I will see the patient back in 1 months time; 1 month's time; 1 months' time?
1 month is singular, and in this case we want 1 month to be in possessive form since time is being possessed by 1 month. A similar example would be: The recipe called for 1 cup's worth of flour.
Time can be possessive of itself? So the correct form would be 1 months' time? I'm not sure I really understand which is correct and why. Sorry.
Possessive form is going to be either 's or s', depend on if the noun is singular or plural. Example: The girl's comb - singular The girls' club - plural One month (or 1 month) is singular and it is possessive of time. So it would be: 1 month's time If it were more than one month, it would be the other way, since anything else would be plural, i.e. 2 months. SO: 2 months' time
I see, that does make sense, even though I did not know time could be possessive of itself. Thank you.
Time is not possessive -- what governs it is. (In terms simply of grammar.) The phrase "one month's time" is like shorthand for "a time period of one month." The amount of time is defined by how many months are involved. Generally you can rewrite a possessive phrase using this "of" phrase. Even though sometimes the resulting phrase isn't anything you would really say (it might sound funny), the sense of the relationship is there. the comb of the girl = the girl's comb the picture of the girl = the girl's picture the website of Open Study = Open Study's website
Actually, it is one months time.
Er, no, it is not. The phrase takes an apostrophe.
Er no it doesnt because with the ' it would be month's which means that "month" owns time. Months' means "multiple months" own time. Months means "multiple months".
No you use an apostrophe because as Redwood Girl pointed out, what what is really being said here is "in the time of one month". Singular possessive is used. End of discussion, so stop trolling.
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