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I'm having difficulty understanding when to use students' vs students. I know you use students' when you're talking about more than one student. For example: "The students' homeworks were marked".
She has developed skills in identifying problems from constantly analyzing student’s/students' language use. Hi, what is the factor in this sentence that determines the plurality if she has taught numerous students for a long period but taught one student at a time?
Biffo's "one of the students' names" equates to "one of the names of the students". But what I think nurdug is looking for is a way of using the saxon genitive to say "the name of one of the students".
For a list, use "Student Names" or "Students' Names". Remember that nouns can function as adjectives in English. If you want to show group possession, you put an apostrophe after the "s". The second way is considered a fancier way of writing it since most native English speakers rarely use the plural-possessive apostrophe even though it's well-accepted. For a table-column heading, use "Student ...
Someone is only a "student of" a broad field of study, not an individual class. If I say, I am a student of philosophy. Then that means that I am generally interested in philosophy. It doesn't necessarily even mean that I'm pursing a formal degree in philosophy, just that it is one of my personal interests. (Aside: If I wanted to say that I was formally studying philosophy, especially as a ...