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What is it modifying?
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Believer  #277836  Sun, 08 Oct 06 03:40 PM

   Hi,

Please tell me what the marked/underlined "a" is modifying?   I thought that when you have something in the possessive form, the determiner is not needed.    

I am going to a boys' school. 
  
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Inchoateknowledge  #277840  Sun, 08 Oct 06 03:55 PM

Hi,

It modifies "boys' school".
  
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Clive  #277841  Sun, 08 Oct 06 03:57 PM

Hi,

Please tell me what the marked/underlined "a" is modifying?   School

I thought that when you have something in the possessive form, the determiner is not needed.  The genitive is used here to describe a 'characteristic' of the school. Compare 'a lion's footprint'.  

I am going to a boys' school. 

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Yankee  #277858  Sun, 08 Oct 06 04:54 PM
In other words, it's not really any different from using the article 'a' this way:  a new school.
  
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Clive  #277884  Sun, 08 Oct 06 07:12 PM

Hi,

Yes.

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