what days do I work?

[ilovefred]

OK, we were discussing today what I should put on my out of office message at work.

I only work on Mondays and Tuesdays. Is that right? No apostrophes and 's' at the end of both?

Thanks :)

OK, I know today is Thursday but I was having lunch with the girls ...

I would have though 'I am in the office Monday and Tuesday each week' would sound better, although, I am no pendant.

No apostrophes. The nouns in the sentence are plurals and no possessives.

"I only work on Mondays and Tuesdays" is correct

If you put an apostrophe in a word it indicates either that something has been missed out:

'don't' = 'do not' - the 'o' has been left out

or it is a possessive - i.e. it is indicating that something belongs to someone:

BIWI's pen = the pen belonging to BIWI

So if you were to put an apostrophe after Monday, it would suggest that you've left a letter out, which you haven't, or that you're trying to indicate something that belongs to Monday, which you're not.

The 's' that you're adding at the end is simply to indicate a plural noun. So instead of it being 'Monday', which is one Monday, you are meaning more than one 'Monday', which is correctly to be written as 'Mondays'

HTH