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Buddhaheart wrote:1. We really appreciate your giving us your opinion regarding this issue. OK 2. We really appreciate you giving us your opinion regarding this issue. Not OK What comes after the main verb ‘appreciate’ is a noun phrase ‘your giving …’. ‘Giving’ is a gerund acting as a noun....

Her dad saw the young kid kissing her younger daughter. And The young kid went as fast as he could. Her father said, " That would be coward/cowardlyHow many people do we have here, three or four? And what are their relationships? Perhaps I could simplify the sentences a bit first:Her dad saw...

Normally, you would be asking if Jack has any jackets at all (i.e. does he have protection from the cold?). For singular countable nouns, an article (a/an/the jacket) is always needed, unless it is replaced by a demonstrative (this jacket) or a possessive (your jacket). Generalization has...

Could you please explain the terms "determiner" and "modifier"? (Note how to ask this kind of question. ) Determiners are those small words which come before nouns, like articles (a, an, the), possessive adjectives (my, your, his, ...), demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these, those), and...

That's ok, JK. Yes, you could say: 'Businesses try to maximise their profits.' I'm not sure how you'd add 'economist' to that, though. {My, your, their, our, his, her, its} are possessive determiners. These act like adjectives: 'my book', etc. {mine, yours, theirs, ours, his, hers, its} are...

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a language that is not even my own in depth when I...

Here's an example in which both are correct: is that it appears to be the object of the possessive adjective "your". In a normal noun phrase, a possessive determiner cannot be omitted: I regretted his decision. I regretted decision. The sentence becomes ungrammatical with the removal of...

Hi, Bews’, James’ Smiths’… The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar possessive (n. & adj.) (A word or case) indicating possession or ownership. The possessive case of nouns is also called the GENITIVE case, e.g. boy's, boys', Mary's, the Smiths'. Pronouns in the possessive case are the series...