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Week's /week lectures
Message from mrenglish2015 posted on 13-03-2015 at 13:56:59 (D | E | F)
Hello,
could you help me with this question please?
do these words take 's or not ? why?
week - year - month - day
Can we say week's lectures or week lectures ?
Thanks in advance

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Edited by lucile83 on 13-03-2015 14:57

Re: Week's /week lectures from carlabice47, posted on 13-03-2015 at 15:07:41 (D | E)
Hello,
Partitive expressions may be referred to time or measure. You say a minute's delay ( the delay was of one minute), a week's work, a month's study, a year's research ( the research lasted one year). You also say a three weeks' holiday , a five minutes' walk, etc.
Not all temporal expressions , though, are partitives ,when temporal expressions are used as adjectives , they lose the S of the possessive genitive.
Therefore you say a five-day period ( with the hyphen), a ten-minute break !
Hope this helps!!
Bye carla

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Edited by lucile83 on 13-03-2015 15:08

Re: Week's /week lectures from mrenglish2015, posted on 13-03-2015 at 22:53:27 (D | E)
thanks a lot my dear

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