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Rule "two tank's (tanks)"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

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.
ID: SPURIOUS_APOSTROPHE [5]
Version: 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-25 22:33:08 +0200)