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Hello again MrP IF I may I call you MrP I think I understand now what you meant in the post I found confusing You said which implies that the subject of the lt whosever whose ever gt clause in the example is the same as the subject of the main clause However the subject of the lt whomever gt...

A Practical English Grammar by Thomson and Martinet As everyone everybody takes a singular verb the pronoun should be he him she her with possessive adjectives his and her But this is only found in formal English In ordinary conversation the plural forms they them and their are used instead Has...

Davkett thanks that was a silly mistake came over Thank you all it s clear to me about structures with a hyphen As for the other variant possessive or genitive is probably a wrong term I came across these examples ten minutes break an hour s drive etc in A J Thomson s A V Martinet s Practical...

Hi creolejazz The rule you search lies I think in the grammatical unit called Nominal Clauses Nominal ing clauses that is participle clauses or as pieanne illustrated above gerunds The commomest type of participle clause is that which has no subject When a is subject required there is sometimes a...

Has the rule collapsed I don t think it was never erected If you look through various grammar texts or google possessive nouns here s a GOOD SITE you ll find strict rules and more malleable ones I still stick with Jesus but let clarity and spareness rule me otherwise

As you say this is still a bone of contention but I believe that most authorities adhere to the simple rule of no possessive ergo no apostrophe At least I do and would unhesitantingly write H G V s only seven HPs seven MPs seven MPs hats Exceptions are usually made for the few cases where...

Sorry I was coming back to it These threads are drifting down at an alarming rate these days 1 The two facts are slightly awkward How about this The impossibility of giving his assent to any of the positions which because of their apparent equipollence are party to these various disputes leads...

Hi MrP As my message ended up on page three I take the freedom to post it again 1 The impossibility of giving his assent to any of the positions which are party to these various disputes on account of their apparent equipollence leads the Pyrrhonist to the adoption of suspension of judgment with...

I m not sure whether the possessive gerund structure was preferred by English teachers when native grammar was taught to the natives I suspect that it was if only because Fowler devotes so much space to it But I would guess that most of those who produce written BrE for public consumption these...

MrP I agree that provide for this s being done doesn t work but provide for John s being fed is grammatical at least In either case though I would be more likely to say provide for this to be done or provide for John to be fed I could never bring myself to say provide for this being done or...