7.57 Inanimate possessors

With inanimate "possessors," especially abstract concepts, the apostrophe is generally not used to denote possession. Use an "of" construction instead:

• the incidence of conjugal violence
• the priority of tourism

not

• conjugal violence’s incidence
• tourism’s priority

However, certain expressions of time and measurement do take the apostrophe:

• a month’s vacation
• ten dollars’ worth

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