Your individual personality and experience meets peoples needs in different ways.
Generally, an apostrophe is used to identify either plural or possessive. Since people is already plural, the s is possessive and should be written:
Your individual personality and experience meets people's needs in different ways.
Example (Wikipedia):
Kingsley Amis, on being challenged to produce a sentence whose meaning depended on a possessive apostrophe, came up with:
Those things over there are my husband's. (Those things over there belong to my husband.)
Those things over there are my husbands'. (Those things over there belong to several husbands of mine.)
Those things over there are my husbands. (I'm married to those men over there.)
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| Wow. This lady's been busy. Forget Polygamy. Go for Polyandry. O_o |
The plurals for capital letters and numbers used as nouns are not formed with apostrophes. Examples:
She consulted with three M.D.s.
BUT
She went to three M.D.s' offices.
The apostrophe is needed here to show plural possessive.
She learned her ABCs.
the 1990s not the 1990's
the '90s or the mid-'70s not the '90's or the mid-'70’s
She learned her times tables for 6s and 7s.
Exception: Use apostrophes with capital letters and numbers
when the meaning would be unclear otherwise.
Example:
Please dot your i's.
You don't mean “is.”
Exception: Use apostrophes with capital letters and numbers
when the meaning would be unclear otherwise.
Example:
Please dot your i's.
You don't mean “is.”
For some great pictures demonstrating misuse of apostrophes, you can check out the blog Apostrophe Abuse.
So, are you an abuser? Do your fingers sometimes sneak an apostrophe somewhere you KNOW it doesn't belong?
*raises hand*
