By Apostrophes, Possessives

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...

Believer wrote:I am wondering why in the examples below, we cannot say "a friend of my uncle" but have to say "a friend's my uncle's" The source seemed to say that the second phrase in quotes is the right one because it is basically saying "my uncle's friend." OK, but I cannot quite dispel...

I am always having trouble about it. I dont' like to see formal or technical texts with so many "apostrophes". To me, it is not necessary sometimes, but still I am not sure of when to use it or not.I presented the following case in another forum:Our Teaching Program is in charge of the...

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...

Never an apostrophe in hers, yours, ours, theirs, his or its (when its is possessive). It's always wrong.

The apostrophe could be either used or omitted in both cases. These are all OK:Council of Ministers' MeetingCouncil of Ministers Meetingministers' meetingministers meetingAs the name of the meeting, usually the noun-noun form rather than the possessive+noun form is chosen, as it saves typeset...

Apart from the misplaced apostrophe, it sounds generally a little odd to me, without an article. MrP

Hey, i'm new here. My name is Tim and I got this forum from a friend of mine. He told me that this might help me with the problem i got. I have a brother that is 16 years old and i'm 23( in the US Army). He needs help with his english. The teacher gave him the study guide, but no answer on...

Hey, i'm new here. My name is Tim and I got this forum from a friend of mine. He told me that this might help me with the problem i got. I have a brother that is 16 years old and i'm 23( in the US Army). He needs help with his english. The teacher gave him the study guide, but no answer on it. ...

What is the possessive form of face? ie: "Her face's shape is more like an oval than a circle." or, "Her faces shape is..." Thanks! -Aceman Jones acenyc28@hotmail.com