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I wonder if the Jones house and the Jones s house are the same Is there a case of genitive where s must be added to a noun ending in s I appreciate your help

Hello I need help on how to put nouns in plural in genitive cases In my sentence Are you talking about hypnotizers voice I m talking about the voices of the hypnotizers There are many hypnotizers but each of them has only one voice Should I write my sentence this way Are you talking about...

Hello Roro OED says about the etymology of cost as follows a OF coster couster mod coûter Pr and Sp costar Pg custar It costare L constôre to stand together stand firm abide be settled or fixed stand at a price cost f con together stôre to stand The construction of this verb is idiomatic and for...

Hi Gai welcome to English Forums Normally the Saxon genitive s is not used for inanimate objects In the caption to a technical drawing it should be filter cover with filter a noun acting as an adjective just as in bottle top lamp shade spoon handle As Abbie suggests filter s cover is acceptable...

Skin problem skin is a noun functioning as an adjective inanimate objects do not normally take the possessive Dog leash Tree trunk Pencil eraser nose hair

It won t be he who gets fired is correct In English we have only three cases nominative objective and genitive possessive All subjects and subject complements are in the nominative case and all objects are in the objective case The genetive case doesn t enter into this discussion We say for...

What are the rules for using what in the way I did in this thread title I first heard it in the TV cartoon series The Tick which has a bad guy called The Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight I ve been told that the standard pronouns are who whom which and that Who is used for people Whom is...

mingle gather crowd assemble On gemange was used in the full form before 1000 but it was gradually degraded into among during Late Old English period 1000 1300 In those days among was often used

nq 2 Jock Ewing what is the name of your grammar book ever heard the term Saxon Genitive please tell me no nq nq 1 You probably don t know my grammar book unless you re French It s called Grammaire anglaise de l E9tudiant and I thought that itevolves rapidly Do you think that twenty years ago...

korin said Over approximately 1500 years the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only s plural nouns 3rd person singular verbs and saxon genitive in modern English English has become a rather analytic lg where most of the syntactic relations within a...