By Grammar, Possessives

Grammar Geek wrote:Something's = something is, a contraction, not a possessive use. Something IS going to happen shortly. is going to = future I am going to go to the store tomorrow. You are going to be sick after eating all that candy. Something is going to happen (just what, I don't...

This is a question of style, not grammar, so there will not be a prescriptive answer. I just looked in Chicago and couldn't find an answer. My suggestion would to rewrite - This letter is in reply to the inquiry sent by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Or, skip the abbreviation if...

My team and I have an going debate that started when someone posted a sign that stated: "Your attention and cooperation is appreciated" Some felt that it should be plural (are) and not singular (is). Though when we typed both versions of the statement in MS Word, it did not see anything wrong...

Anonymous wrote: I would consider this not only poor grammar, but highly stilted and inferior in all but the most colloquial of circumstances. Hello Anon Further to Mister M's explanation, I can confirm that the double possessive is alive and well in British English. You may find it in...

I guess you don't get out much, Anon. Here is a sampling of respectable online sources. Doing a bit of Google research yourself will turn up many, many more.The American Heritage Dictionary: Grammarians have sometimes objected to the so-called double genitive construction, as in a friend of my...

Mister Micawber wrote:This is my wife's photograph. Does she own it? Is she portrayed in it? The only escape is the double genitive: This is a photograph of my wife.This is a photograph of my wife's.Hello, Guru. I don't think that I understand you. Are you suggesting that this last...

Hi there, The writing got better towards the end. You know a decent number of idiomatic expressions, but you need to work on your grammar. I've left some of these for you to fix. After all, it's your blog... * - delete I don't remember *since when the blog thing *has started to become so...

Grandmother's making me a new blue blanket. Can you tell me about the " 's " in Grandmother's? I'm confused about the use of the apostrophy. From the www.Dr.Grammar.org The apostrophe is used for three purposes: to indicate the omission of one or more letters (can't, don't) or figures...

This may help: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm

Grammar Geek wrote:Uh huh, YoHf... and how many people purchased Sheherazade as their first classical music recording for the same reason? That's quite an easy guess. Loads of them, right? You're welcome, Mjomran.