By Dates, Possessives

Hi, I am not sure whether to make any of these possessive or not. I think some are allowed, that is, the one with the possessive and without the possessive are both OK, but are there some guidelines I can go by? Have to learn by examples? The clothes I will be wearing for this year's ball...

Hi, I am not sure whether to make any of these possessive or not. I think some are allowed, that is, the one with the possessive and without the possessive are both OK, but are there some guidelines I can go by? Have to learn by examples? The clothes I will be wearing for this year's ball...

Hi, what the differences between...http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/adieu-jeanpaul-adieu/2007/02/26/1172338542669.html The quote continues as follows. Many peoples worry about losing their identity in the face of globalisation. But opinion polls show that few fret about it more than the...

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Hello,One more issue with 'double possessive', please comment.Here is a poem written by Rita J. Fitzgerald:Dear Lover of Mine Who's On My Mind One day I saw the heavens open up, and there was the blood from Jesus. The King of Kings, Who poured out his blood on my sinful soul. And...

Lin1978 wrote:Thank you, Master Yankee. Your answer is quite clear. But I still have one small question. Last time my teacher told me that, "if I have two different subjects in a main clause and in a conditional, and I want to use the participle phrase, I have to keep both two subjects or change...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

Hi, Would you make them possessive and if so why? human rights violation -- the violation of human rights (looks to be a candidate for possessiveness but written as that because it is idiomatic) House ethics panel -- the panel concerning ??House ethics?? (seems doesn't need to be made...

<And when exactly is "have" supposed to have been "purely possessive"? We can find abstract usage of "have" in OE; and the use of "have" in the present perfect was well established by ME. > According to most scholars*, in OE, general use of have had the meaning of pure possession, with...

Obviously, depending on where we learned English, it has some bearing on our understanding toward some of the most common debated questions. To validate my own understanding, I did some searching and came to a conclusion, In the US, some experts agree that either singular or plural is...