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“The pilots’ luggage filled two boxes.”

pilots’

several regular-plural owners + apostrophe after s

luggage

non-count head; no ordinary plural -s

two boxes

count head + sibilant plural -es

the pilots’ luggage

complete subject noun phrase; head = luggage

filled

complete past-tense verb; sentence check passes

Una oración contiene los temas centrales de hoy.

Slide 29

Tips

One Sentence, Every System

  1. Pregunta qué significa cada grupo antes de mirar la s: several owners, mass noun, two count units.
  2. El head del sujeto es luggage, no pilots; pilots’ modifica luggage.