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I'm doing some work for my English and I have a section that says "this sytem allows players to" and I'm unsure what version of 'players' I should use, should it be (players) (player's) or (players')

Help would be really appreciated, thanks.
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It sounds like it should be "Players"
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Player's. Makes more sense haha. I suck at spelling but i know that's where it goes
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Cheers lads! Means alot, never been the best at spelling and grammer especially when it comes to things like this.
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If you still need help, you can google "players or player's" It should come up with a few sources or something like yahoo answers where somebody explains it, some explanations can be a little confusing, but best of luck with your English.
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HEY IT'S ENGLISH LESSON TIME


What does this thing -> ' <- aka "the apostrophe" do?

Two things. It implies possession, and provides the necessary punctuation mark to form a contraction. Only use it when you're connecting a person to something that they posses, OR when you're trying to form a [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] , otherwise don't use it at all. It's actually quite simple - let's look at some examples...

Correct examples of apostrophe usage:

Possession:
"Me and the guys are going to Billy's house after school"
Why this is correct - The house belongs to Billy, so it's Billy's house

Notice that the word "guys" in this example does not have an apostrophe, as we're not creating a contraction [guy is?] or implying that the guys posses anything)


To form a contraction:
"You don't know what you're talking about!"
Why this is correct - Contractions are a way to shorten some specific words. In this example, we changed the words "do not" into the words "don't" by using an apostrophe.

NOTE: You can tell whether or not using an apostrophe here is correct by saying the word to yourself. For example, the contraction for "they are" is "they're". If the sentence is "we are going over they're", we can instantly tell that the wrong form of the word "there" has been used, as "we are going over they are" doesn't make any sense.

Example: In place of "is" when speaking about someone/something:
"That guy's crazy"
The long version of which reads as: "That guy is crazy"

A note about the "S" - Apostrophes get tricky when we're talking about words that end in the letter "S". Let's use your word, players as an example:

"This is the first win for the soccer players' league in this town"
Because we're talking about more than one soccer player, the apostrophe is added to the end of the word, after the "S", which makes the word "player" plural in this example.

"His speed is the greatest contributing factor to this player's success"
Because we're talking about the speed of one individual player (speed that belongs to the individual player), we only use one "S" at the end of the word "player" and add an apostrophe before it to imply possession.

Hope this helps!
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