A student named Brittany Crowley had to go the hospital last week and, while she was there, found this example of nurses who don't know that they OWN the nurses' station and should, therefore, put an apostrophe after the "s" in "nurses" . . .
The corrected version of this sign would read like this:
"Nurses' Station phone number."
(Note: the apostrophe goes after the "s" in "nurses" because there is more than one nurse to whom the station belongs.)
GRAMMAR RULE: Use an apostrophe to denote possession.
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