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This is perhaps a bit of a strange question, but it's bugging me no end.
I know that it is acceptable to use both a singular and a plural noun after a plural possessive, e.g. "..this influences ...
Insurance fraud accounts for about 10percent of the property insurance industry's incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses.
Apostrophe-s could mean the possessive, or a contraction of is.
"...
You have made a difference in mine and Riley's lives ...
or
You have made a difference in my and Riley's lives ...
or
You have made a difference in Riley's and my lives
Not sure what to use here.
Can we use the below expressions to mean "one of...."
(1) A car of the family
to mean one of the family's cars?
(2) A hat of the man
to mean one of the man's hats?
(3) A son of the old ...
How do you use the possessive (apostrophe) with a company's name that consists of 3 words? For example,
Barnacle Caribbean Cruises' complaint
Is this correct?
A file whose filename ends with a date-and-time suffix that is separated by @ is a copy that is created to compare it later with the current version of the file and with other such copies of that file ...
Is it January's schedule or January schedule?
I also get confused with whether to include an apostrophe before "bill."
This is my January bill or January's bill.
I am often corrected on StackExchange for writing it's instead of its
Few minutes ago :
I start a game by it's shortcut ==> I start a game by its shortcut
I am (quite) sure that when I was young, I'...
Are both of these sentences grammatically correct?
a. He heard singing from the other room. It was a woman's beautiful voice.
b. He heard singing from the other room. It was the beautiful voice of a ...
I think it is a pretty simple question. I am not sure which sentence sounds better:
Please send me the last two file's pages.
Please send me the file's last two pages
Would a sentence without using ...
I came across a sentence where a modifier seemed to be modifying an possessive adjective. These are not the same sentences but they work similarly (the article's and adjectives I'm wondering about are ...
I know all the pronunciation rules for the plural -s endings. After a voiced sound, it is z, after an unvoiced one it is s, after s, sh, ch it is iz. In phonetic notation, respectively, /z/, /s/, /ɪz/....
a. If you examine enough of our lawyers' files, you'll get a pretty good idea of how the legal system works.
b. If you examine enough lawyers' files, you'll get a pretty good idea of how the legal ...
What is the right way to use the determiner 'all' with a possessive adjective e.g. my, your, etc? What is placed first? all or P. Adj?
A. His all habits were unique.
B. All his habits were unique.
Is ...
Do these have the same meaning:
Their perspective about me is...../ of me is.....
The perspective of theirs about me is...../ of me is.....
His book was on the table yesterday.
The book of his was ...
The genitive 's refers to what belongs to you. I say Jack's car. I mean the car belongs to Jack. I could also say, 'his car' using possessive adjective. My question is about 'God's forgiveness'. It is ...
If I want to use the plural of "moderator" and also add the apostrophe plus S, how do I pronounce it? How do native speakers pronounce it?
Moderators = moderatorz
Moderators's = ...
Here is a paragraph from the Cambridge Dictionary blog:
As men are now being encouraged to talk more and be more open with our feelings, there seems to be a correlation with the rise of the ‘mancom’. ...
Why do we say in English things like a Facebook post, an AWS service, the Silicon Valley, etc.?
In Portuguese, we would say "A post of Facebook", "a service of AWS", and "the ...
Assuming your sibling telling you that his friends do not respect his boundaries, what would be your answer using the "If I were you..." structure? I see native speakers saying something ...
It is stated within my grammar textbook that, "for things, ideas etc., we normally use of to show possession". So for example:
The temperature of the water. (Not the water's temperature)
...
Consider the following expression.
The book's page
Which of the following rewording express the above mentioned phrase correctly and in which contexts?
A page of the book
The page of the book
Note:...
Please look at the following example:
If someone asks me to not upvote a question (suppose) and I want to tell them in response that "I will upvote whoever's question I want".
How to express ...
Imagine the following scenario:
Ronald and Alana are a couple.
Jono and Daisy are a couple.
Jono is Alana's brother.
What would be the correct way to say the following phrase?
We are Ronald and Alana,...
A: The increasing air pollution in Singapore is due in part to its neighbouring developing countries’ high dependence on fossil fuels.
B: The increasing air pollution in Singapore is due in part to ...
I know that the "s" becomes "z" when it comes after a voiced sound. And it is pronounced as "s" when it comes after a voiceless sound. I also know rules about possessives ...
I am trying to learn if i can use possessives in a chain.
Are my sentences correct and if not how can i make them so?
"Father of John's pen is an antique."?
(what i meant: "John's dad ...
Which use of possessive is correct
"I'm grateful for my mother's love"
or
"I'm grateful for the love of my mother" ?
Or are they both correct, but carry different meaning? I ...
Should the German term "Bauernvogt", literally meaning "peasants' bailiff" be kept as "Bauernvogt", translated to "peasants' vogt", "vogt of peasantry"...
What's the difference in meaning between the following sentences:
1 Troubles of life can sometimes leave us with a frown.
2 life's troubles can sometimes leave us with a frown.
Say I have two authors that each wrote a book (not together) and I want to refer to both of them in one sentence while lumping their books into one noun, should I put an apostrophe right after the ...
Can we use genitive constructions in sentences like this:
The cat loved Jill with all his cat's heart;
...or should it be "with all his cat heart"?
Thank you!
Do you agree with the interpretation of the following three example sentences?
I don't want to be involved in the problems of my boss.The boss probably deals with some problems. e.g. slow
sales, ...
I'm a portuguese speaker who loves English.
I've seen on a website the following affirmation: The content of the website. You can also say, "the website content", or "the website's ...
He plays his MP3 player in the library. I don't appreciate that.
While not being sure, I just guess it should be like below:
I do not appreciate his playing his MP3 player in the library.
I've just said to a friend "That cloud's looking very dark". And apparently that's not correct.
He said "it's" is allowed as an abbreviation but "cloud's" is never "...
When one should add 's and when not?
Examples:
Task due date / Task's due date
Company name / Company's name
Form field / Form's field
Customer service / Customers' service
Which is more grammatically correct?
For our country, people and environment.....
or
For our country, our people and our environment.....
Do we need to repeat the word 'our' in front of every ...
The boy has three coats. His coats are in the closet.
According to the above sentences, is this sentence grammatically correct?
The three boy's coats are in the closet.
I know it is wrong, but I do ...
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