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apostrophes in this sentence?

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mollykins | 21:32 Wed 09th Sep 2009 | Arts & Literature
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where if any should apostrophes go in the following sentence?

These are the results from the surveys i carried out.

or is there a better way of wording it?
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Results and surveys are both plural, so no apostrophes are needed anywhere.
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but the results belong to the surveys and they are plural so shouldn't there be one after the s in results?
I would argue that the results do not actually belong to the surveys.

However I would bow down to any english scholar who disagreed.
No apostrophes.You need a capital 'I' though, and a "that" will help to introduce the restriction on "surveys":

These are the results from the surveys that I carried out.
There are no apostrophes required in that sentence.

There is nothing inherently wrong with the wording of the sentence but (assuming that you've already made reference to your surveys) a simple heading such as 'Survey Results:" would be more elegant. (Note the use of the colon, after 'Results', to signify that listed information follows).

Chris

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If you intend to keep your original sentence (or something close to it), a pedant might suggest that 'results' should be followed by 'of', rather than 'from'.
If you wanted to use an apostrophe, it would look like this:

These are the surveys' results.
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I do use capital letters for I in my work but i forget when i'm on the internet.
2 out of 3 ain't bad, mollykins.
2 out of 4 even Ellipsis :)
Did you carry out more than one survey or just a single survey of numerous people.

You might want to say "These are the results of the survey I carried out."

I might be wrong but to me of sounds better than from
Mollykins, are you conducting a survey on the use of apostrophes?
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I asked the same questions to lots of people.
In which case I would suggest you conducted a survey in the singular.

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