Timeline for Adjective or possessive?
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| Jan 11, 2016 at 16:00 | history | edited | Jasper |
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| Feb 17, 2015 at 15:11 | vote | accept | Tom Cornebize | ||
| Feb 17, 2015 at 15:11 | vote | accept | Tom Cornebize | ||
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| Feb 17, 2015 at 14:06 | answer | added | Travis | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 13:35 | answer | added | user16519 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 12:24 | answer | added | Maulik V | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 12:05 | comment | added | ЯegDwight | Adding a rather crucial point to what snailboat said: your latter option saves a mere three characters, and the former just one (one!). "Who's France's president?" saves four, and even "Who's France's president?" would only save six — you have used 80 times as many for this post alone. Talk about straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel. Leave it as it was. It was fine. And now it isn't. Do not fix what's not broken. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 11:18 | comment | added | user230 | Your first example is fine. France's in your second example is a genitive noun phrase acting as a determiner, so there's no room for the determiner the; you should say "Who is France's president?" In your third example, using France as an attributive noun ("Who is the France president?") is grammatical but it probably isn't what you want to do here (for semantic reasons). | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 11:14 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Feb 17, 2015 at 11:11 | history | asked | Tom Cornebize | CC BY-SA 3.0 |