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Originally Posted by troopie
When an apostrophe is used within a word it indicates missing letters, when it follows a word it indicates a possessive case.
So in the phrase: "one of the Navy***8217;s wolf pack submarines" the apostrophe makes it read like so: 'one of the Navy is wolf pack submarines'.
However, the sub's in question belong to the Navy so it should read: "one of the Navys' wolf pack submarines"
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Wrong. If it belongs to one navy it is "Navy's". "Navys' would indicate it belonged to more than one navy. In that case it would be plural, and it would be "Navies'"
My computer is not "Steves' computer", it's "Steve's computer".
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