The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #147254 Message #3413540
Posted By: Steve Shaw
03-Oct-12 - 07:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: Grumpy about Spelling Errors
Subject: RE: BS: Grumpy about Spelling Errors
"...not bringing to the students' attention" does indeed require the apostrophe. "Students'" here is the possessive case. Omitting the apostrophe betrays nothing less than a tendency towards the illiterate.