The comma belongs there.
So does the apostrophe except that "several" makes the noun plural, right? Where will the apostrophe go on a PLURAL POSSESSIVE??
Also, did you see my post this morning on one of your questions late last night?
Determine if the following sentence employ the correct use of commas and apostrophes.TRUE=correct FALSE=wrong
1.The patient is a 41-year-old, white female with a several-month's history of biliary colic.
ANSWER:
False
Thinking comma after old can be eliminated and put after female.
+ no ' needed after month = months.
3 answers
Answer:
on a plural possessive the apostrophe would go on the outside
ex. several-months' therefore still making this sentence FALSE.
Just found something in my notes that would now totally make this above sentence TRUE!
*If you have a business or an organization OR a hyphenated word, you make only the last word possessive.
several-month's.
Now I am not sure if it's TRUE or FALSE
Yes Thank you for the late night post -I went to bed. I believe I am 3 hours behind here on the West Coast of Beautiful BC Canada.
on a plural possessive the apostrophe would go on the outside
ex. several-months' therefore still making this sentence FALSE.
Just found something in my notes that would now totally make this above sentence TRUE!
*If you have a business or an organization OR a hyphenated word, you make only the last word possessive.
several-month's.
Now I am not sure if it's TRUE or FALSE
Yes Thank you for the late night post -I went to bed. I believe I am 3 hours behind here on the West Coast of Beautiful BC Canada.
It's still false!! Plural possessives of regular or semi-irregular nouns end with -s' not 's.
We're about 2 hours apart. I'm in Central time and Ms. Sue is in Eastern time.
We're about 2 hours apart. I'm in Central time and Ms. Sue is in Eastern time.