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quote user Anonymous Please advise re the cat which belongs to Grace Because Grace ends with an s sound I wonder if it Is Grace s cat Or Grace cat quote I agree with Yankee Yet it must be said that there is a tendency among today s grammarians to standardize the often entangled genitive of...

Grammar Geek wrote Singing is a gerund a noun so it takes the possessive my This is rather peculiar I think I have encountered the same thing on these forums many times Native speakers say A gerund is a noun Do they teach it that way in American schools and universities Grammatical terminology...

Welcome to EF Cla Grammatically both are possible in English Obviously there s nothing wrong with the genitive version Einstein s equations as he is the father of his equatuions and nothing in English grammar prevents us from using the genitive However it is also possible to use a proper noun...

Hi guys What do you expect she s Britney Spears sister Apart from the genitive consideration I d expect this to be written as What do you expect She s As a wild generalization I wouldn t necessarily expect people who are interested in Britney s sister s pregnancy to be greatly concerned about...

Kooyeen wrote Anyway I m not sure I m right because I just looked for some video about that on Youtube because I wanted to hear it It turned out on CBS they said Britney Spears sister not Spears s Hi KooyeenYou may be interested in what Otto Jespersen says about the genitive in his Essentials of...

I always thought it was a remnant of the French Norman Invasion 1066 There is a handful of verbs in French conjugated with to be rather than to have in the passé composé past tense Rise to be born arrive leave go all coming and going verbs are some examples We also sing He is risen and we allow...

J Lewis Thank you for the explanation of soccer I knew it had been coined from association but didn t know it had been done by the British Words like clothesline are in dictionaries so it s understandable that the plural s is there A United Nations assembly is not in dictionaries and since...

Paco I m sorry English is so frustrating A few comments come to mind First I can see how it seems to you that the current chaotic state of English is a result of generations of laziness regarding grammatical rules but I would prefer to think of it this way the current flexibility of the English...

Davkett thanks that was a silly mistake came over Thank you all it s clear to me about structures with a hyphen As for the other variant possessive or genitive is probably a wrong term I came across these examples ten minutes break an hour s drive etc in A J Thomson s A V Martinet s Practical...

Hi Paco glad I could clear up a misunderstanding Yes the most common meaning of he has not lived here for 5 years would be he has been gone for 5 years I think your explanation of why you didn t understand it this way is really interesting And I think as usual you re being too hard on yourself...