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Rule "two tank's (tanks)"

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Description:	two tank's (tanks)
Message:	The possessive apostrophe seems to be incorrect. Please remove the apostrophe if you want to use the plural form of '\2'.
Category:	Typography (ID: TYPOGRAPHY)
Link:	https://onlinewritingtraining.com.au/apostrophe-usage-use/
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	I have many CD's. Correction suggestion: CDs
Correct sentences for comparison:	And several days ago, we all went to this gorgeous ranch where some millionaire's going to build a golf course. Any technology that deals in meta-meta-models is going to be a hard sell, no matter how many analyst's reports have been written. Some guy's probably making money on this. The first people in space who had never been a member of any country's armed forces were both Konstantin Feoktistov and Boris Yegorov aboard Voskhod 1. That is all Mexico's territory.
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ID:	SPURIOUS_APOSTROPHE [5]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-19 22:33:07 +0200)

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