Apostrophe: Individual team member's goals or individual team members' goals?
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This is stumping me a bit. The sentence is referring to individuals out of a group, but writing it as 'individual team member's goals' seems a bit weird to me as it's like it's just one person in the team. Should it be 'team members' goals' so it's plural? But then what about it being the goals for each individual member?
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This is stumping me a bit. The sentence is referring to individuals out of a group, but writing it as 'individual team member's goals' seems a bit weird to me as it's like it's just one person in the team. Should it be 'team members' goals' so it's plural? But then what about it being the goals for each individual member?
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It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
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Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
yesterday
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This is stumping me a bit. The sentence is referring to individuals out of a group, but writing it as 'individual team member's goals' seems a bit weird to me as it's like it's just one person in the team. Should it be 'team members' goals' so it's plural? But then what about it being the goals for each individual member?
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This is stumping me a bit. The sentence is referring to individuals out of a group, but writing it as 'individual team member's goals' seems a bit weird to me as it's like it's just one person in the team. Should it be 'team members' goals' so it's plural? But then what about it being the goals for each individual member?
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It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
yesterday
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Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
yesterday
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It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
yesterday
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Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
yesterday
It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
yesterday
It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
yesterday
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Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
yesterday
Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
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It just depends on whether you are have one individual in mind, or many - some members of the team prefer to work on their skills, others prefer to work on their fitness - it just depends on the individual team member's goals (here the idea is, for a given team member...) but whether we spend most of our time working on skills or fitness hasn't been decided yet - it will depend on the individual team members' goals - here the idea is that we will have a discussion and see what the general feeling is.
– Minty
yesterday
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Usually though, if you are using individual, you are thinking about one person, or one at a time, so the apostrophe will go before the s. Otherwise it would be more natural to talk about the team's goals.
– Minty
yesterday