By Constructions, Apostrophes

Can I also write: Human Passions' Narrator or Human Passions NarratorNo. It's best to reserve the apostrophe-s construction for people. Mary's, Mr. Smith's, the women's, etc. half/a half/half-wayThere are hundreds of expressions that use half, a half, the half. See a good dictionary. ...

CalifJim wrote: the table leg / the leg of the table the table's leg LOL, I didn't choose that example at random, I once read it somewhere. I did a little search here, and find out it was GG who said that! Well, she also replied here, and her opinion is the same. I also read in some...

Emily__ wrote: Hi, I found some recommended explanations, but I´m still a bit confused: 1. I´d rather you went. 2. You´d rather stay. (I suppose "´d" could be either "had" or "would".) Why there is past simple in 1 and present simple in 2? Thank you. It’s pouring outside. I’d rather...

1. Can the underlined word be replaced with 'of' and keep the same meaning? He had started construction on a hunting lodge. He had started construction of a hunting lodge. 2. Would you favor the placement of an apostrophe and making it a possessive for the underlined part? Is the first...

I guess you don't get out much, Anon. Here is a sampling of respectable online sources. Doing a bit of Google research yourself will turn up many, many more.The American Heritage Dictionary: Grammarians have sometimes objected to the so-called double genitive construction, as in a friend of my...

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...

John and Vicky's father may be two different people This is possible, but not the expected interpretation. The rule is: "Compound Possessives When you are showing possession with compounded nouns, the apostrophe's placement depends on whether the nouns are acting separately or together. ...

Perhaps one of you sent me this, or perhaps I have subscribed to this service and forgotten the fact, but at any rate the following serendipitiously arrived in my mailbox this morning: Possessive vs. Attributive Nouns ************************************************* If you enjoy this writing...

I realized, while reading your post, brattania, that American speakers would most likely not use the verb at the end in the construction, "I'm not as lucky as you "; however, assuming they know enough to avoid using him/her, would probably say, "I'm not as lucky as he/she is." Would you agree? If...