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Please correct these. 1) Hi, I thought you needed his biography, so I am attaching it here in this email. If you have any questions, please ask me at the meeting. 2) It isn't going to make a hill of beans worth of difference at the Olympics. -- Why not "a hill of beans'...

Yes. My answer is pretty oblique. I don't think the function of determiners is to modify at all. Underlined words show the correct use of apostrophes.<<I thought the "new mother's room" was for nursing mothers.>>I don't think so. The room is new, not the...

Thank you, CalfJim. You wrote: My daughter goes to a girls' school. This one is possible. A school for girls. It seems to me that this version without the apostrophe is also common. You might wait for a second opinion on this. >> In regard to my initial question of whether an...

I don't believe that the term "genitive of classification" is widely used. I'm not familiar with the concept. << in normal situations, people would go about using 'tigers' den' without the article? >> No. The article is used. << My daughter goes to a girl's school. A...

Others' would require an apostrophe. Other opinions is correct The opinions of others=others' opinions is also correct. The use of the definite article "the" is often quite tricky. I don't find it wrong either way.

Goodman wrote:Hi Hoa Thai, From reading your explanation, I couldn't help but pitch in my 2 cent regarding the "possesive" confusions. If the my observation is accurate, "God" does not take any article. I'd like to point out that in the back of any US greenback, "In God We Trust" is printed on...

Hi Hoa Thai, From reading your explanation, I couldn't help but pitch in my 2 cent regarding the "possesive" confusions. If the my observation is accurate, "God" does not take any article. I'd like to point out that in the back of any US greenback, "In God We Trust" is printed on it. Notice God...

Yoong Liat wrote: WesternAmerican wrote:Marius' G guitar This has already been discussed. It was said that it should be written as "Marius's", i.e. that only the plural nouns don't have "s" following the apostrophe and that names ending in "s" should have it, even though they end in "s".@...

I know this is a grammar board, but I figured this would be the place to inquire about the apostrophe. In a recent newspaper article in a local publication, the last name of a gentleman was Williams. Because his name ends in an "s" and it's a proper noun, shouldn't the possessive be "Williams's"...

You're right; these are not ordinary idioms. The words that end in "-in" are really "-ing" forms where the final "g" is not pronounced. (In some instances in the lyrics the "g" is replaced by an apostrophe, in others it's just omitted) And the "a" is not an article -- it's "an archaic or...