In Nouns^x, Genitives^x

Hello friends Please which is the correct way and why Doubt 1 color of the car x car color x car s color leg of the cat x cat leg x cat s leg pizza of yesterday x yesterday pizza x yesterday s pizza I ve heard that Genitive Case is used only with nouns which are living creatures humans animals...

Grammar Geek wrote Singing is a gerund a noun so it takes the possessive my This is rather peculiar I think I have encountered the same thing on these forums many times Native speakers say A gerund is a noun Do they teach it that way in American schools and universities Grammatical terminology...

Welcome to EF Cla Grammatically both are possible in English Obviously there s nothing wrong with the genitive version Einstein s equations as he is the father of his equatuions and nothing in English grammar prevents us from using the genitive However it is also possible to use a proper noun...

The genitive is correct because ing form is used as a noun and it needs a possessive

Thank you both for your effort It is highly appreciated and has helped me a lot in my frustrating studies If you don t mind take a look at this bird s nest the nest of the birdbirds nest the nest of more than one birdbirds nest nest is a verb means birds are building up their dwellings I found...

Grammar Geek wrote And what about their mother The Spearses mother These plural possessive ending in S nouns seem to have half a dozen correct ways of writing them Hi GGThis intrigues me Could you please tell me what other suggestions style guides have offered as correct plurals and plural...

CalifJim wrote Light from several lanterns filled the room with a soft glow Laughter of children was heard on the playground Hmm Do these have to be The light and The laughter I certainly don t want to criticize Steinbeck s English at all I dealt with the of genitive in my previous post and...

CalifJim wrote CB I hate to disagree because your comments are always so very helpful and appropriate and you are such a valuable resource on the forum Nevertheless I don t think any poetic license whatever is involved here Thank you for your kind words Jim As English is not my mother tongue I...

I see little use for the apostrophe here We do not normally use the Anglo saxon genitive for inanimate objects but use instead the noun as adjective A table legA 1960s recording labelIn any case in a non possessive situation the apostrophe should be reserved only for the few situations in which...

Hi thanks again folks for all your extra comments Yeah Clive we should always try to avoid redundant stuff But my examples can sometimes be weird because I make them weird on purpose lol For example in this case I really needed and wanted to point out that the engine was part of the car just to...