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Which one is correct? This book belongs to his brother. This book belongs to his brother's. The first is correct; the second is incorrect. Can you explain what rule applies to it, please? The verb 'belong' takes the preposition
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john lawler
5 yr 107 days ago
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Marking of the genitive, like many things in English, nowadays has two parallel structures, an older, simpler one, and a newer, more flexible one. The newer one here is the use of the modal particle "of". "Modal"? What do you
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aaron j. dinkin
6 yr 108 days ago
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If the genitive exists as a case in English, then it's the case assigned to a noun phrase by a possessive "-'s" that follows it. (I.e., in "the queen's museum", "the queen" would be genitive.) You begin
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eric walker
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