Help With Grammar!!

ilovemarkb | 18:19 Sun 09th Dec 2012 | Arts & Literature

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According to (Welch 2008, p336) patient’s fears may arise from ...............

question Patient's or patients'

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abstibus

Patients' - this means more than one.
If you wrote 'patient's' you would have to add an article (the), indicating only one patient.
I suppose you could say 'a patient's' if you prefer. There still has to be an article.

MarkRae

Definitely! Or, possibly, indefinitely... :-)

corylus

Depends if 'patients' is plural or singular, if plural apostrophe after the s, if singular it's apostrophe between t and s.

abstibus

There should also be a comma after the bracket.

stewey

I think a colon would look good after the bracket. Also, quotation marks to indicate that you are quoting Welch.

boxtops

The reference should be thus

According to Welch (2008, p336) patients' fears may arise from ...............

factor-fiction

I don't think it's intended to be a direct quote though, stewey. (I'm assuming that because otherwise the poster wouldn't have had to worry about the position of the apostrophe.)

stewey

You could be right, factor.

boxtops

Is this for your studies, Ilove?

Delaval

A colon? No!! A semicolon? Yes!!

abstibus

No colon, no quotation marks. She has given the page number so I assume she is goint to paraphrase or summarise Welch.
She still needs a comma after 'according to', which is an introductory clause.

factor-fiction

I don't see a case for a semi-colon at all, Delaval.

abstibus

'Going to'.

boxtops

No, not if it's just a reference in a piece of written text as part of a paragraph - the way I suggest at 18.37 was how my uni tutor taught me. Colons are only if you are going to cite the quotation in an inset section immediately following.