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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?
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".
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 ...
Consider: It were or was the students who wanted the teacher to declare Is there a way to identify when a collective noun will take a singular verb and when it will take a plural verb?
subject verb agreement - "It were students ...' or 'It was students ...
There are so many places in Oxford for people to study, and their students are so keen to pass themselves off as going to the famous university, that I'd be suspicious. He is a student from Oxford could well mean he was at some educational establishment in the city other than the university.