what is the possesive of the word business? is it business’ or business’s??
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It is suggested by the Style Manual “Grammar and Specific Lafayette Usage Guide” (Layfayette College) that you avoid “making an inanimate object possessive”
http://www.lafayette.edu/community/styleguide/a4.html
Under the heading “A4. Possessives”:
a4.5. Avoid constructions that involve making an inanimate object possessive, especially when the object of possession is abstract. “The business’s failure” is better expressed as “The failure of the business”; likewise “chemistry’s rules” should be “the rules of chemistry.”
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