Questions tagged [possessives]
for questions about words and word forms used to indicate ownership, belonging, or a similar relationship.
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Can JAVI BROTHERS in JAVI BROTHERS MOVIES be considered as an adjective
Which would be the ideal choice, literal option:
A JAVI BROTHERS MOVIES
A JAVI BROTHER'S MOVIES
A JAVI BROTHERS' MOVIES
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Possessive/genitive case: "tradition of Holy Fathers" vs "Holy Fathers' tradition"
Which one is generally preferred:
Image of Man in the tradition of the Holy Fathers.
Image of Man in the Holy Fathers' tradition.
I would prefer the first, but is there a general rule or something?
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"the" before of-phrases [duplicate]
I feel most the time there is a "the" before of-phrases
Consider the following sentence I wrote:
As an example of the role of the context in the classification of a node, suppose we want to remove ...
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Can 'that' ever modify book in these sentences?
Can that (either separately or as the first word of a phrase) modify "book" in the following:
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I have never heard of that Jane Austen's book.
I.e., can the sentence be equivalent to
I have ...
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The use of "of" in this sentence [closed]
A cramped Brooklyn outlet of Barnes & Noble, a book chain, requires strollers to be left in a designated parking space on the second floor.
I don't know how of is used in that sentence. Could ...
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Is it possible to use the possessive pronoun "whose" for things that are not human being? [duplicate]
So far I came across cases that the usage of the possessive pronoun "whose" refer to human being. For instance:
"The man whose horse was strongest, won the competition".
Then my question is if it's ...
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Is "a major years' " wrong?
The government said it would replace the program with a new Immigrant
Investor Venture Capital Fund, which will require immigrants to invest
money, rather than just loan it. The shift comes as ...
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UK young engineers' conference OR UK's young engineers conference
Which is more correct?
UK young engineers' conference
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UK's young engineers conference
to denote a conference of young engineers in the UK and
a conference of young engineers of the UK and.
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Would you tell me more about possessive?
It is a light on a car.
Turn on the car light.
(that would be the light inside the car)
Or, you can use the possessive:
Turn on the lights of your car.
(that would be the headlights (plural) on the ...
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Why have "my" and "your" been used in place of "me" and "you" in "...There is no connection between **my** having no pencil and **your** having..." [duplicate]
Following is an excerpt from The Evolution of Physics, by Albert Einstein and Leonard Infeld:
Let us follow the motion of the idealized car on the idealized switchback as it begins to roll downward ...
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X's attribute matches y's (attribute)
Which one is/are the correct form(s)
my car's yellow matches the jacket's
my car's yellow matches the jacket's one
my car's yellow matches the jacket's yellow
The sentence is supposed to mean "...
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"You not getting admission in MIT would have been so bad" or "Your…"?
Which one is correct?
"You not getting admission in MIT would have been so bad"
"Your not getting admission in MIT would have been so bad"
Similarly:
"he not offering you any help is hard to ...
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guilty of the illegal sale of houses that were not its to sell in the first place
The council appears to be guilty of the illegal sale of houses that were not its to sell in the first place. (CGEL,p.471)
I don't get well what role this phrase, to sell in the first place, takes. I'm ...
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"x's y" or "y of x"
Which or following phrases are correct? Why? Can you please guide me to use correct construct?
the cat's eyes, eyes of the cat
the table's legs, legs of the table
this year's spring , spring of this ...
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The chances of you getting a good job are greater than (my chances) of graduating high school. -- grammaticality [duplicate]
The chances of you getting a good job are greater than me graduating high school.
The chances of you getting a good job are greater than my chances of graduating high school.
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ََUnequivocal usage of "their"
Consider the following castes:
Ali has a house in Tehran. John has a house in Paris.
Ali has two houses in Tehran. John has two houses in Paris.
Ali and John share a house in Paris.
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Noun/Pronoun place before gerund must be in possessive case? [duplicate]
So instead of saying:
All depends on Ron winning a scholarship.
we should say this:
All depends on Ron's winning a scholarship.
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The honest human heart or The honest human's heart?
Which form is correct?
"This is how the honest human heart look" or "This is how the honest human's heart look", and why?
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