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I would like to now if following sentence is correct:

It is Susan's sister's sweater.

This means that the sweater belongs to Susan's sister.If this sentence is not correct please give me the correct one.
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+1 yskh81  [More info]
Hi,
there is nothing wrong in ur sentence, but a better way of writitng the sentence would be:

It is the sweater of Susan's sister.

hope that helps
yskh81
Joined on Thu, Mar 25 2004
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+1 milky  [More info]
there is nothing wrong in ur sentence, but a better way of writitng the sentence would be:

It is the sweater of Susan's sister. >

I disagree.
milky
Joined on Thu, Jan 15 2004
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Hume said that if we had perfect or complete descriptive knowledge of reality, we could not, by reasoning, derive a single valid "ought".
+1 by Pemmican [More info]
Why do you disagree, milky???


Btw: Why is it called "Saxon Genitive"? Does anyone know??
 
+1 suzi  [More info]
"it is the sweater of susan's sister" sounds very clumsy - so I agree with milky's disagreement -

I also don't know why it should be called a Saxon genitive except in as much as the shreds of case system we have left in English originate from Anglo-Saxon invasions? I've never heard that phrase used b4
suzi
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+1 by Anonymous [More info]

saxon must be with anglo-saxon... or smtg like that.

genitive, because like latin, it means that smtg belongs to smtg else.

 
+1 by Anonymous [More info]
didn't anyone study latin over here?.... Nominative, Vocative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative and Ablative.
 
+1 by Anonymous [More info]
It is called saxon genitive, because it comes from the genitive case of old english.
 
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Hope you can help me. Is it correct:

"China's and India's foreign policies" ?

Thank you in advance,

M

 
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