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I would like to know if the 's refers to a room, a place, etc., for borrowing tool and equipment as the word 'equipment' is uncountable to take a plural -s.
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Responses
Just "equipment"
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Note added at 18 mins (2015-04-26 14:55:26 GMT)
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Note the original is "barrowing tool" but that's also probably a typo.
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JaneD
: Given the "barrowing" error I think it's just very bad (possibly non-native) English.
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Thanks Jane.
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Jack Doughty
: Surely the tool must be a burrowing tool?
9 mins
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Thanks Jack.
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Charles Davis
: And tool should probably be tools
16 mins
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Thanks Charles. Yes, that too!
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Taña Dalglish
: Yep! I concur with you and Charles that in all likelihood it is "Borrowing tools and equipment".
45 mins
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Thanks Taña. Probably a place for "borrowing tools and equipment"
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Tony M
1 hr
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Thanks Tony.
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Carol Gullidge
: another case of the dreaded misplaced apostrophe? And that's just for starters; the whole thing looks somewhat illiterate
1 hr
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Thanks Carol. More and more often, that seems to be par for the course.
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Helena Chavarria
: Yes, 'borrowing tools and equipment'.
5 hrs
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Thanks Helena.
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writeaway
: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mass-no...
8 hrs
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Thanks writeaway.
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Rachel Fell
9 hrs
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Thanks Rachel.
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Phong Le
12 hrs
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Thanks Phong Le.
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AllegroTrans
: as a member of the Apostrophe Preservation Society, I can but concur
21 hrs
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Thanks AllegroTrans
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Discussion
2. Using apostrophe-s ( 's ) to form a plural is NEVER correct in English (except just possibly for the plural of an abbreviation when the "s" without the preceding apostrophe could be mistakenly seen as part of the abbreviation).
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[DOC]Equipment Loss and damage
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All students shall sign a waiver upon using and ***borrowing tools and equipment**, during the first class of each studio course, which outlines procedures and ...
But, as said before, I don't know what the text actually says!
Yeah, the ST mentions "equipment's".