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I was about to point out the same thing. According to some grammarians, there are no genitives in English. According to others they are the same as possessives. According to others they are only possessives formed with apostrophes. my, your, our Mary's, the students', a friend's A...

Hey, i'm new here. My name is Tim and I got this forum from a friend of mine. He told me that this might help me with the problem i got. I have a brother that is 16 years old and i'm 23( in the US Army). He needs help with his english. The teacher gave him the study guide, but no answer on...

Hey, i'm new here. My name is Tim and I got this forum from a friend of mine. He told me that this might help me with the problem i got. I have a brother that is 16 years old and i'm 23( in the US Army). He needs help with his english. The teacher gave him the study guide, but no answer on it. ...

Hi, This is rather of lot of questions in one go! You might find you get more answers if you split your posts into shorter ones. Anyway, a more formal grammarian will have to help you with some of these, and I don't have time to do all of them, but my comments on some are here... 1) They are...

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...

"My ice cream being eaten made me angry." I think the sentence is wrong anyway. The apostrophe is missing. "My ice cream's being eaten made me angry." "The eating of my ice cream made me angry."

Hey, Blitz! Long time no see. Fine, thanks - how about you? I'm going to have to build in a little context here: {Dream music and wavy screen indicative of a flashback} — Oh! Dr Blitz, I think we're losing him! — Quick, nurse! The resuscitation procedure! — It's no good, Dr Blitz! He's...