Apostrophe
Isn't the title supposed to be "Two Weeks' Notice?"
shareno, an apostrophe would mark it as a possesive....when there's nothing possesive about a "week"
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Yes, you're right. It's not a possessive genitive, but probably a "classifying or descriptive genitive" or a genitive of measure. Here's an explanation: http://alt-usage-english.org/genitive_and_possessive.html
share..and so it's supposed to be "Two Weeks' Notice". See Lynne Truss' "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Weeks_Notice
If week was being used as a noun, it would be possessive. In this context, "two weeks" is an adjective, and adjectives have no possessive case.
shareYes, it's supposed to be Two Weeks' Notice!!
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"two weeks" is an adjectiveBasically, you're wrong.
There are two words there: two and weeks. It's still comprised of "two", an adjective, and "weeks", a noun. As another smart person pointed out above, regarding the singular version - would you say "one week notice"? No. You'd say "one week's notice". Same principle applies to the plural. Painfully simple.
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I agree with the original poster. What would you do if it were one week? "One Week Notice"? Nah, you'd say "One Week's Notice". So plural should be "Two Weeks' Notice". Language is fascinating!!!
shareOn top of this nowadays a lot of people advocate for always including an s after the apostrophe even if it is preceded by an s, so it would not be wrong as "Two Weeks's Notice".
shareNo, I don't think so.
The notice that she gives if for two weeks, not two week's or two weeks'. That just looks wrong and awkward.
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