By Inflections, Determiners

Hi My father's friend. There is the possessive 's inflection with the possessor: father. We can not put another deteterminer between the determiner (my) and the inflected noun (father's) to express we are referring to, say, two of them. However, 'My father's two friends' is acceptable,...

Vorpar, I'm afraid I hold a different view with respect to your answer to the first sentence, (1) I went on a writing course. In analysing words for their word classes, we consider not only their forms but also, most crucially, the functions that they perform in the sentences or contexts in...