In Possessives^x, Nouns^x

you're not youryou're means you areyour is a possessive pronoun!

Are you asking about forming a possessive by the addition of apostrope-s? If so, then here are some thoughts. I just wrote this stuff off the top of my head, so it's not meant to be any sort of definitive analysis. There is no problem with making possessives from inanimate nouns. For...

Heaven knows it does not need more adjectives. moving hand of my desktop screen, The mouse, quietly lies over the/a black sponge pad, next to the keyboard , again, dont' sepearte the subject from teh verb lying on my bright carpet.

.It should still be avoided. It sounds odd, at the least, in good writing. There is nothing reprehensible about "a fund for disbursement of stock" (all 3 nouns are inanimate, but the applicable one is "stock")-- though I must admit that I don't understand its meaning. ...

1. Certainly not the native speakers that I come into contact with. There are only four Google hits for "do you take beef" in this sense, and none of them looks to be a reliable source of correct English. Instead I would say "Do you eat beef?" 2. You mean "it ......

Thanks, Mr Wordy and Philip. 1. Does it mean native speakers wouldn't say "Do you take beef?" What would you say instead? 2. It was gross. Though it brothered bothered me I just told myself they were hotdogs. (I expected you to correct the pronoun inconsistency in this line....

I think it's always the singular (noun, used as adjective in compound noun.) There's a thread on that, but I can't find it. In the last one, you have a choice of using the possessive: "you stop/prevent their being angry." In you example, "from" is...

Hi N2GI'll butt in if I may. 1. He'd only left her a note on the bedside table of which she had not understood the content. There is a noun in the relative clause and that explains of in this case. I would reword the sentence: He'd only left her a note the content of which she had...

Usually it's singular. "Sales" is a mass noun - "I'm in sales" means that you sell for a living. With "clients' needs" or "clients' needs" it should be possessive.

Hello Branwen319, welcome to English Forums! (Are there really 318 other Branwens here?)No comma is needed; "your" is a possessive pronoun, and "no" is an indefinite determiner (i.e. they're not adjectives). Two or more qualitative adjectives may be separated by a comma,...