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 * rules:
 ** only nouns can be possessive
-** a possessive noun acts like an adjective
+*** note: the possessive noun acts like an adjective (''the dog's bone'', ''dog's'' essentially describes the bone)
 * and only nouns can be possessed
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 **nouns possess nouns and nouns can only possess nouns (not verbs)
 **
+'''elimination:'''
-* '''elimination:'''
+*if punctuation or a verb follow the possessor noun, eliminate
-**if punctuation or a verb follow the possessor noun, eliminate (see examples below)
+**ex.  ''The students' of the school'' = incorrect, because a noun cannot possess a preposition ("of")
-* note: use of an apostrophe to create a contraction with a noun and the verb, "to be" is informal and not measured on the SAT
+*test if the possessive noun is actually an indirect object instead
-**ex., "winning's good" for "winning is good" is informal
+**switch the possession into a prepositional phrase
+**if it makes sense, then the noun should be possessive
+***ex.
+****''The company provides workers' vacations''
+*****the company cannot provide vacations that belong to workers, i.e. "vacations of the workers"
+***versus
+****''The company provides workers vacations''
+*****= ''the company provides vacations to the workers'' ("workers"= indirect object)
 == Hyphen - ==