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Apostrophe: Individual team member's goals or individual team members' goals?
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30pm US/Eastern)Apostrophe before or after s?User’s/Users’/Users GroupHow to determine if an attribute applies to a group or a specific individualShoud I use singular or plural for this sentence?'Team of economists': singular or plural?“Our team” or “My team”?Why “themselves” instead of “himself” when referring to third-person singular?Is “troop” unique among English words in meaning both a group and an individual member of that kind of group?What's the correct verb matching for a 'who' referring to the subject of a previous independent clause?Possessive apostrophe in “teams' time”?
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This is stumping me a bit. The sentence is referring to individuals out of a group, but writing it as 'individual team member's goals' seems a bit weird to me as it's like it's just one person in the team. Should it be 'team members' goals' so it's plural? But then what about it being the goals for each individual member?
grammar grammatical-number apostrophe
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This is stumping me a bit. The sentence is referring to individuals out of a group, but writing it as 'individual team member's goals' seems a bit weird to me as it's like it's just one person in the team. Should it be 'team members' goals' so it's plural? But then what about it being the goals for each individual member?
grammar grammatical-number apostrophe
asked Mar 24 at 10:30
user341156user341156
31
It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:45
1
Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:47
add a comment |
This is stumping me a bit. The sentence is referring to individuals out of a group, but writing it as 'individual team member's goals' seems a bit weird to me as it's like it's just one person in the team. Should it be 'team members' goals' so it's plural? But then what about it being the goals for each individual member?
grammar grammatical-number apostrophe
asked Mar 24 at 10:30
user341156user341156
31
This is stumping me a bit. The sentence is referring to individuals out of a group, but writing it as 'individual team member's goals' seems a bit weird to me as it's like it's just one person in the team. Should it be 'team members' goals' so it's plural? But then what about it being the goals for each individual member?
grammar grammatical-number apostrophe
grammar grammatical-number apostrophe
asked Mar 24 at 10:30
user341156user341156
31
asked Mar 24 at 10:30
user341156user341156
31
asked Mar 24 at 10:30
user341156user341156
31
asked Mar 24 at 10:30
user341156user341156
31
asked Mar 24 at 10:30
user341156user341156
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It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:45
1
Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:47
add a comment |
It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:45
1
Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:47
It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:45
It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:45
1
1
Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:47
Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:47
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It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:45
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Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
Mar 24 at 10:47