🔒 Closed Is this correct: "Some husbands do not approve of their wives having jobs."?

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The sentence should read, “Some husbands do not approve of their wives’ having jobs.”

Notice the possessive apostrophe appended to the noun “wives.”

Why?

Because the noun before a gerund acquires (and requires) an apostrophe to show possession.

So it is a grammatical error in the original example sentence to omit the possessive apostrophe at the end of the noun “wives.”