GRAMMAR POLICE - Can you please check this?

[CornishTeaTime]

Is it:

A. Featuring your business you can reach 1,000s of people each week

B. Featuring your business you can reach 1,000's of people each week

C. Featuring your business you can reach 1,000s' of people each week

I agree that the sentence needs to be altogether re-jigged. Where is the proposed featuring take place? In an online space, or local press, or what? It might help us to construct something more apt.

If you don't want to alter it, OP, at least take on board the advice that's been given about losing the apostrophes.

If this thread prevents one person apostrophising plurals then it has been entirely worthwhile.

Why has this phenomenon suddenly appeared out of nowhere?

Rabid apostrophisers have also taken to apostrophising real surnames ending in "s". So "Phillip's", "Davie's" etc.

It's not only infuriating, it's utterly bewildering. I am assuming this is still taught in schools, and it's relatively simple, so are the human race just becoming more stupid and ignorant?

At the risk of upping the pedantry, I’d say ‘by featuring your business here, you will reach…’

(Assuming the text is in the same place as where the business would be featured.)

😁 (the "was stood" is deliberate? Right?) I mean I wouldn't normally - but this is a thread headed "grammar police"!

Featuring your business can help you reach 1000s(thousands) of people each week.

Or

By featuring your business you can reach 1000s (thousands) of people each week.

The original sentence is clumsy even with the correct usage of thousands.

Completely agree. Let's lament together over in Pedants' Corner.

By featuring your business, you can reach thousands of people a week.

😂

Not understanding apostrophes and rather than missing one, a lot of people(and children) just add one whenever they see an S. Not just for plurals , but verbs as well i.e. goe's.

Indeed.

It is completely baffling though.

You are going to be correct more often by simply foregoing the apostrophe entirely than by just throwing one in every time you use an "s".

The thing I can not get my head around, is even if you started off as uncertain, the internet is covered in the English language, so assuming you've grown up in the UK you are surrounded by, and immersed in, formal English, so that being the case, how can you still be making primary school level errors well into adulthood?

My local chip shop's price board features "Fish Cake's", "Spare Rib's", "Donner Kebab's" and so on. Presumably this was cobbled together by some sort of professional sign-writing/graphics outfit, yet it's been up there for years and no doubt must have been pointed out to the staff/owners hundreds of times, yet they don't seem to perceive it to be a problem. And yes, they are native English speakers, which begs the question how on earth it got up there without someone, at some point, saying "hold on...".

You see an apostrophe and it's as meaningful to you as a letter. So, for you, when you read that sign you immediately see that the meaning is wrong. You see possessives that don't make sense.

If someone doesn't understand apostrophes and doesn't attribute any meaning to them, their presence on the sign is just like a visual form of white noise. They look at it and just see plurals.

What does featuring your business even mean?

Pp suggested featuring your business here

Which I guess is better assuming that's suitable for the context??

Why do you feel you need an apostrophe?
Spell it out: 'thousands'

It should be "By featuring your business you could reach thousands of people each week".

What the hell is going on with all those deletions?? There was nothing even vaguely rude or controversial in those messages! The mods have lost the plot.

B,C,D and E are all wrong.

But as others have said, it should be reworded as it's a bit odd and it's not clear what you mean.

Yes this - excellent rewording. And no apostrophe please @CornishTeaTime

I would write thousands rather than 1,000s; yes most style guides spell out numbers up to and including nine, but I don't think pluralising a figure with a letter really works. Many hundreds of people agree on this is much nicer than Many 100s of people agree on this

What @Colddipinthemorning said.

The only thing with can or could is that they indicate possibility rather than certainty; that's why will or would might be better.

Would 'every week' be grammatically correct ' instead of 'each week' which doesn't sound right to me?

Where is OP?

thousands

No apostrophe