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My friend Yong kept telling me that the above construct must be used since man s represents a set of friends that the man has I believe he went too far I understand double possessive is sometimes required to help clarify the difference between a set from its subset element For examples 1 John met...

Osee wrote Hi there Questions post near the red parts below Thanks a lot Osee__ The idea seems reasonable Recognize better workers with extra pay But it s not that simple Performance may be easy to measure in some workplaces But teachers say a classroom is not one of them Last year we reported...

Thanks so then what is the difference between my previous example and this one I went to my parents house I went to my parents s house I m sure the latter is not correct in this case Is the argument to go both ways in the Jones example only because it s a name that ends in S

Feebs11 wrote in their early 30s is correct The apostrophe turns it into a possessive of 30 I am surprised that a porn shop is providing coffee and buns This may be a difference between English as it s writen in the UK and America According to my reference from college Simon amp Schuster...

Help me please I m an Assistant Language Teacher in a school in Japan and a Japanese English teacher has run into a test marking problem to which I m not sure of the answer A question involved looking at a sentence in Japanese and entering the correct word into the parentheses That s one of the...

Anonymous wrote What s the difference between to strip off and to strip of I ve seen the both been used For example I stripped of all my clothes I stripped off all my clothes Are the both correct and is there any difference between the two Thanks I strip off recognised colloquialism for gettng...

Thanks M M for your help I was just consulting my dictionary for it when u replied But to my great surprise Her has not been mentioned in my dictionary as an adjective but as a pronoun and determiner In the later case its function was the same as in adjective Could you pleas tell me the...

Hi Zhuricki No the rules haven t changed and there is no difference between British and American English here In search of is a special idiomatic phrase and means the same thing as looking for or seeking As is normally the case with idioms in search of is a fixed grouping of words When you use...

the following not the followings There are no plural adjectives in English There is often no difference between the possessive structure company s requirement and the compound noun structure company requirement The compound noun is probably more common when the possessor is inanimate CJ

Garnett wrote Goodman I see what you re saying but still maintain what I said about the different usages was valid Can I just point out Porsche has an s It s is short for it is or it has Its is a possessive pronoun Garnett I don t own a Porsche and yes I missed spell it I am fully aware the...