Penicillin  +  501657 Thu, 17 Apr 08 01:50 AM Hello Look at these: - We're sitting in my house's garden. - We're sitting in my house garden.   Which one is correct, I guese both are. What do you think? Thanks Penicillin Joined on Wed, Aug 25 2004 Full Member 335

	Philip  +  501668 Thu, 17 Apr 08 02:38 AM The first is correct, but I would rather say, "We're sitting in the garden of my house". Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,738 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen

	Grammar Geek  +  501669 Thu, 17 Apr 08 02:40 AM You can have a rose garden, an herb garden, a perenniel garden, but not a house garden.   Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	Philip  +  501670 Thu, 17 Apr 08 02:40 AM Anonymous “ Hi. Both of them are understandable, but neither of them is, in my view, what most native speakers would say or write, which is: 'We're sitting in the garden of my house.' or simply 'We're sitting in my garden.' M. C. Niven ” I agree with you.  However, some people have gardens that are separate from their homes.  We call them 'pea-patches'. Philip