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Why is there an apostrophe after "workers", and why has it caused me to read this six times?
by noduerme 5y ago
Why is there an apostrophe after "workers", and why has it caused me to read this six times?
- Mordisquitos 5y agoIt may have been caused by an incomplete editing decision. If you remove a few words the sentence becomes grammatical, if clumsy. Compare: > Technology robbed workers’ of what had been highly valued physical knowledge about a job: [...] ...with... > Technology robbed workers’ highly valued physical knowledge about a job: [...] Maybe the original sentence was the second one and was edited for clarity, but they forgot to remove the apostrophe.