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LOL, no I actually paid attention! I just wanted to say I don't remember reading much about that in grammar books or forums. But I already noticed your answers about this issue here in EF, so don't worry, I pay attention. But since this is not the first time I've seen you mention...

Thank you both for your effort.It is highly appreciated and has helped me a lot in my frustrating studies If you don't mind, take a look at this:bird's nest - the nest of the birdbirds' nest - the nest of more than one birdbirds nest - nest is a verb means "birds are building up their dwellings"...

Cool Breeze wrote: Yankee wrote:I still find "It is a 10 minutes' meeting" odd. And I still think the most common usage of this construction (when talking about time) is with the word 'time'.Hi YankeeThe oddness doubtless stems from the genitive (minutes'), which is between the article (a) and...

Yankee wrote:I still find "It is a 10 minutes' meeting" odd. And I still think the most common usage of this construction (when talking about time) is with the word 'time'.Hi YankeeThe oddness doubtless stems from the genitive (minutes'), which is between the article (a) and the word it...

Thank you, Eimai_Anglos. Are you saying a genitive cannot be made a countable noun or used as a countable noun? I think a guru has delivered expert advice on that aspect of grammar and I think it has been said a construction like "a shaking of a ground" means "an instance of shaking of a...

Believer wrote: Hi, I was looking at the bartleby.com website on possessive constructions and came upon these. a women's college -- to indicate a purpose?? a three months' journey What do the two "as" modify? It is my knowledge the articles usually modify the nouns that immediately follow...

Grammarian-bot wrote:But you can't use "like" as a conjunction where it means as if. My question here is to know whether a double genetive is appropriate here.GB like is a prep in the first sentence People sometimes object to the “double genitive” construction, as in a friend of my father’s or...

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...

Mister Micawber wrote:This is my wife's photograph. Does she own it? Is she portrayed in it? The only escape is the double genitive: This is a photograph of my wife.This is a photograph of my wife's.Hello, Guru. I don't think that I understand you. Are you suggesting that this last...

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...