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SlyIg:
Let me ring Prof. Joy Eyisi, the youngest professor of English in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
She will know it.

Timijo:
I agree with you. I told my boss who is a white man but he is yet to be convinced.

ayobase:
white man?

from india?
from China?
from Lebanon?

He said 'White Man'..

Why are you asking about Brown and Yellow people.

MadCow1:
Owners' that is the correst form..



1. The Boy's Books are on the Table.. (One Boy)
2. The Boys' books are on the table... (Many Boys)

MadCow... _{Mad since 1921..}

Timijo:
Which is correct?
Cars are parked at owner's risk or cars are parked at owners' risk.
Please state your reason(s)

AndreRose:
Your correct. See Evidence...

Olaone1:
LOL.

You need to understand the role of determiner "the" in your examples. As well as where your apostrophe is placed

You example is not okay here, bro

Olaone1:
Both are correct

melotreaah:
No dear.... don't get it wrong ok. For example you own a bag, and if i should come and found your bag on the floor and i asked who owns this bag; reply: Its spicylate's bag. #shikena. Same thing applied to <owner's risk>.

laykorn:
Cars are parked at owners' risks.
The risk will come in plural form.
Ayamlaykorn

meelorlah:
Yea,It shows possession but in this case,we have more than one owner. So the mark comes after d plural noun and that's y we have owners' .

Timijo:
Cars are parked at owners' risk is correct. I have explained this in my previous post but I noticed that some people are not convinced because of what they have read on googles. I want such people to understand that that search engine called google is not a wizard. It is people like you and I that are writing the information that google is bringing out. It cannot be 100% correct at all times.
Lemme replace the word ''owners'' with the word ''drivers'' in the sentence for better understanding.
Cars are parked at drivers' risk, which means that cars are parked at the risk of drivers. If you write it like this: Cars are parked at driver's risk, you are referring to one driver who will park cars at the same time and this is not possible.
If it is written as this, car is parked at driver's risk or car is parked at owner's risk, it is grammatically correct.

Hussyk:
madam uno reply me.....wat i do nah

Timijo:
Which is correct?
Cars are parked at owner's risk or cars are parked at owners' risk.
Please state your reason(s)

sweetylicious:
This is correct because it is more than one person,not just a single person.

MadCow1:
Very wrong..

melotreaah:
Thanks dear. i was about to do the same thing but you're faster than me, because i can still very much remember my cil 201 that we read about thornton vs shoe lane.
Thanks once again.

MadCow1:
"The" in English language is known as 'definite article' and serves to specify a noun which in the case of the example I gave was 'the books'.

Example: 'The Girl..' (meaning the speaker and listener both know who she is'

My apostrophe positioning (before of after the plural noun) in my example serves to quantify (singular or plural) the ' possessive noun' which is; Boy.




I hope it's clearer ...

AndreRose:
Yes Mr madcowm I now undstnd it. Tnx anyway.

Car Parking

The College does have parking available but it is limited. Other parking facilities can be arranged through the Conference & Events Co-ordinator. [size=19pt]All vehicles are left at owner's risk[/size]. There is pay-and-display parking on Sidgwick Avenue, Ridley Hall Road & Newnham Walk.

Please note that spaces are limited and that bicycles left on our premises are done so at the owner's risk.

Cars are parked at owner’s risk

Please note that bicycles and other items are left entirely at their owner's risk.

Vehicles are parked at the owner’s risk.

All cars are parked at the owner's risk.
A £0.50 booking fee will be added.
you may be asked for a credit card on check in to guarantee any charges in addition to your room charge

A notice outside the park said all cars were parked at the owner's risk

Vehicles are parked at the owner's risk.