There is a difference between writing and speaking. If when talking you say "Whos going," the listener will likely hear it as Who is going . But if you write who's, the reader is apt to think it is a possessive, as in Who's key

Hi Anon Part of your difficulty might be due to the fact that you have some typos/errors in your sentences. I'm at your dad ' s house. Are you Brittany's brother. You add an apostrophe and an S ( 's ) to the end of a noun to

Hi, what is possesivesin proofreading Possessives are possesives no matter where they are used. I don't see anything special about possessives in proofreading, other than to make sure they are correctly used. Clive

Hi Ivanhr, and welcome to English Forums. Yes, you will hear "I appreciate you coming" very often. Technically, yes, it should be "your coming" because (as Anonymous has pointed out) it's the act of coming that

Hi, OK. Let me first ask you if you know the possessive form of 'Aunt Lenice'. Best wishes, Clive

The sentence is... The train ride of twelve hours exhausted Aunt Lenice. the instructions say to rewrite the sentence using the possessive form of the noun.

When we say 'his being' we are using 'his' as a possessive pronoun. This is tantamount to saying Bob's doing... (An apostrophe here indicates possessive). And whenever one uses such a construction, although one should try to

That's = that is and that was? No. Never was . There are no contractions with the past tense of to be ( was, were ). Since thought is past tense shouldn't it be that was No. It should not be That was . That still remains, even now, what I

Isn't it more likely that they will play with the children - whichever children they may be? Yes, that makes sense, but it doesn't answer the underlying question of the original poster, which, as I see it, and in different words, is: What

1. look-alike 2. like (not similar) 3. like (not similar) than she You're = contraction of you + are Your = possessive