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Hello Hela Yes, you have to add the 's to "Tess". It seems that we may only leave off the s if the terminal sound is z: 1. Loch Ness's other monster. 2. Black Bess's younger sister. 3. The princess's pillow. But: 4. Jones' house/Jones's house. You might see or hear "Sophocles's" or...

Hello Hela 1) So what we call "the genitive case" is the apostrophe s and the relative whose, and the "possessive case" is any expression with of to express possession? Would you please give me sentences where we CANNOT use the 's but rather the of form? — I would use "genitive" to describe the...

Hi, Swan discusses this in his Practical English Usage (Section 261 on Genitives). Charles is a singular name, and takes 's (although classical and other special names often don't). eg Charles's house. Roberts sounds like a family name, referring to several people, so just put an...

Dear MrP and all the other teachers, 1) So what we call "the genitive case" is the apostrophe s and the relative whose, and the "possessive case" is any expression with of to express possession? Would you please give me sentences where we CANNOT use the 's but rather the of form? 2) Would you...

Hello MaraThis is not an answer to your question. This is just a comment on the question you raised. All of what you are asking is exactly the things that have annoyed me long time since I began studying English. Some native speakers grudge that we ESLs are bad in using compound noun phrases. In...

Riglos wrote:1. How can we distinguish between a descriptive genitive and a compound noun? The descriptive Genative will be an inflected Genative using the apostrophe, just like the possessive. This appears to be an argument of semantics; the foundation of which rests in whether...

I suppose we can think of 1. Tom and Mary's car as 2. (Tom and Mary)'s car on the grounds that if we multiply both "Tom" and "Mary" by apostrophe-s, we find ourselves with one shared car and a couple of legitimate genitives: 3. Tom's + Mary's car But with 4. ...my-wife-and-I's last...

Version 2 is possessive (or more broadly, genitive) and shows the correct use of the apostrophe. "Today's post" equals " the post of today."

equivocal It would be erroneous to say that the suffixes in a), b) and c) are the same. Orthographically maybe, and that only would be for a) and b). Even then only for regular plurals and verbs. c) has an apostrophe which makes a world of a difference. They are different suffixes sharing some...

The "-s" is the most common suffix left in English by now, it took over several functions: a) plural indicator: one apple - two apples b) 3rd ps sg inflection indicator: sing - he sings c) genitive ending: Jon's house It would be erroneous to say that the suffixes in a), b) and c) are the...