New answers tagged possessives
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tomorrow morning vs. tomorrow's morning
There are no possessive apostrophes in noun phrases like "tomorrow night" or "Friday morning". This is usually the case with times and dates - it's not 'three's o'clock', 'January'...
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tomorrow morning vs. tomorrow's morning
There is no possessive apostrophe in these phrases
Tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening and tomorrow night they all refer to different periods of the day after “today”.
Whereas the ...
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Possessive pronoun or possessive adjective when giving options, only one of which is first-person
A quick on line search for "my mine difference" will give you an explanation, of which the following is a synopsis.
My is a possessive adjective that modifies a noun to indicate ownership. ...
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