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English is nearly consistent and logical with regard to the position of the genitive apostrophe. If there is no s at the end of the word in its basic form, the apostrophe comes before the genitive s. In other words, your first sentence is correct.We like each other.Not: We like each...

Hello again,Unfortunately,I've put one part in my previous post wrongly.Sorry for that.It would be correct to use the preposition "toward" in the following part:"But,if the verb indicates motion,or in plain english,if you are :going toward, flying toward, traveling...

Thank you, CalfJim. You wrote: My daughter goes to a girls' school. This one is possible. A school for girls. It seems to me that this version without the apostrophe is also common. You might wait for a second opinion on this. >> In regard to my initial question of whether an...

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"...

Hi,The majority of my club's new English learners often generalize B of A = A's B or vice versa. The formulae do not always work as Grammar Geek pointed out. I use them sparingly unless I sense that B is a member of A set, such as: the cadets of the school = the school's cadets, or the windows...

The genistive 's can be used for people: John's car organisations: the administration's agenda time phrases: a week's pay, in a year's time astrological bodies: the sun's rays Your examples of non-people, non-animal fall under one of the other 3 sub-headings Hope this...

Hi ! Could you please, tell me what's the meaning of the following sentence (it's a tongue twister)? I know the meaning of each word , but I can't understand them into it: "Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread. And by the way shouldn't it be : ... Ted's bread and Fred's bread? (if not,...

Dear MrP and all the other teachers, 1) So what we call "the genitive case" is the apostrophe s and the relative whose, and the "possessive case" is any expression with of to express possession? Would you please give me sentences where we CANNOT use the 's but rather the of form? 2) Would you...

Dear Patatasfritas, It is I believe as you have said. In the first sentence we regard John and Mary as individual. In the second sentence we regard them as a couple. Kind regards, Goldmund

korin said: >Over approximately 1500 years, the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only 's' (plural nouns, 3rd person singular verbs, and saxon genitive) in modern English. English has become a rather analytic lg, where most of the syntactic...