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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...

In terms of grammatical correctness, it is essential to keep in mind whether the pronoun in question should be subjective or objective. One says "My wife and I own this tree" because in this case one ("I") is the subject of the verb. One uses "me" when he or she is the object: "My wife owns...

Nona The Brit wrote: ....the advertisment contains 20 photographs, that are taken for you.' should read '20 photographs, which are taken for you? that or which? Relative pronouns in non-defining clauses Person Thing Place Subject who which...

would someone please read this and tell me what you think..... Eva Anna Paula Braun was born in Munich, Germany on February 6, 1912. She was the second of three daughters born to Freidrich and Franciska Braun. Eva and her two sisters, Ilse and Gretl, had a normal middle class...

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 <whosever/whose-ever> clause in the example is the same as the subject of the main clause. However, the subject of the...

"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...

"We must stop him doing that" – now you mention it, yes. I hadn't even noticed. (I know I would say 'prevent him from doing'; but 'stop from'? I don't know whether I do or not. Will have to catch myself unawares.) We're also losing 'against', in 'appeal/protest against a decision'; though I...

Paco, I too was taught the "one's doing" formulation in the sixties and have never stopped using it, and neither have any of my friends and family whom I consider careful speakers of English. I have also found it to be universally followed in American formal writing (anything from newspapers to...

I cannot think of a context in which an educated speaker in the US would ever use anything other than a possessive with a gerund. (In the first example “The teacher disliked the child whispering …” “whispering” is used as a participle, not a gerund.) I have often been perplexed to see an...

I can't detect any love in it at all, apart from self-love and love of honour and possessions on the Duke's part. The duke is characterised by arrogance and social pride. he never refers to his duchess by name, so she has no individuality, no existance other than the one he bestowed upon he by...