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title: "Contractions and Posessives"
description: "In Veeam technical documentation, we do not use contractions — neither negative nor positive. When talking about possessive nouns, we do not use apostrophes."
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# Contractions and Posessives

In Veeam technical documentation, we do not use contractions — neither negative nor positive.

When talking about possessive nouns, we do not use apostrophes. If a sentence contains a possessive noun, we either do not include an apostrophe or try to restructure the sentence in a way it does not need the construction any more.

### Examples

1. Backup from Storage Snapshots [can't]{.mdhl-incorrect} be used for VMs whose disks are located on VVol datastores.

   Backup from Storage Snapshots [cannot]{.mdhl-correct} be used for VMs whose disks are located on VVol datastores.

2. If a VM is neither available in the seed nor mapped to an existing VM replica, [it'll]{.mdhl-incorrect} be skipped from processing.

   If a VM is neither available in the seed nor mapped to an existing VM replica, [it will]{.mdhl-correct} be skipped from processing.

3. [User's roles]{.mdhl-incorrect} configured on the Veeam backup server apply to Veeam Agent backup jobs as well.

   [User roles]{.mdhl-correct} configured on the Veeam backup server apply to Veeam Agent backup jobs as well.

4. The SP takes responsibility for configuring backup infrastructure on the [tenant's side]{.mdhl-incorrect} and performing all disaster recovery tasks.

   The SP takes responsibility for configuring backup infrastructure on the [tenant side]{.mdhl-correct} and performing all disaster recovery tasks.