By Nouns, Genitives

Hi, I think it has been noted in this forum that a genitive (I think it means a noun that has or is from a verbal root) can be (made it to be) a countable noun, possibly like this "a barking of a dog need not be heeded." Here, a barking can be said to be an instance of barking. 1. Why has the...

would you say "John calling" is a noun phrase almost identical to "his calling" where "calling" is a genitive functioning as a noun?No. There is nothing genitive going on here. It's (among other things) a Whiz-Deletion. That will be John who is calling. So calling is part of the verb...

Hi, CalifJim. Thank you. As to your sentence, "That will be John calling upon hearing the phone ring," would you say "John calling" is a noun phrase almost identical to "his calling" where "calling" is a genitive functioning as a noun? And in the phrase "hearing the phone ring," would you say...

From The Elements of Style:Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write, Charles's friend Burns's poems the witch's malice Exceptions are the possessives of ancient proper names ending in -es and -is, the possessive...

Hi, Thanks for your answer. But I have to confess that I'm too confused about it now, once I always heard: " the boy's mother" or the "students' school" for example. So could you please, explain me the reason why for 'the husband of the actress' , I have to write = the actress's husband , and...

Anonymous wrote:Hello! Please, which form is correct : the actress husband (or) the actress' husband ? And why? What is the plural for 'lens'? E.g.: He smiled at the lens of the camera. Thanks, Andreas "The actress' husband" is correct. If a noun ends in "s", you just put...

MrPedantic wrote:It interests me that some modern languages have at least the appearance of greater simplicity (e.g. the loss of inflection) than their counterparts of 900 years ago. This seems counter-intuitive: you would expect a language to evolve towards (not from) complexity.Hello MrPAs far...

Besides that, it would be great if someone could explain why only the genitive case is possible for a pronoun in "NOUN of SOMEONE", but I know there are a lot of inexplicable things in language.I'm a fan of you and your music.Is it possible because "you and your music" is considered a whole unit?

1. Do / does / did is generally used instead of repeating a verb:He likes coffee and so do I.John saw her there and I did as well. (NOT: ... and so saw I)2. I am not familiar with the term 'noun phrase'. Being corrected is a passive gerund and there is vacillation in its subject. If the subject...

I have met the genitive case of the noun coach: coach's, and I am wondering how to pronounce the apostrophe s ('s). Is it \z\ or \iz\?