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Are you asking about forming a possessive by the addition of apostrope-s? If so, then here are some thoughts. I just wrote this stuff off the top of my head, so it's not meant to be any sort of definitive analysis. There is no problem with making possessives from inanimate nouns. For...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

Hello Hela 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? — I would use "genitive" to describe the...

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...

deleted by an obligatory deletion transform. Will this work on the clutter in my living room? Don't we all wish!!! LOL Part of the problem, as Paco has aptly observed, is the problem of finding the missing (deleted) subject of a dependent clause, the infinitive clause "to be ... cleverer...

Hello everybody, How can I talk about neutral inanimate objects and abstract nouns? First, I read about “possessive constructions” to find out what types of nouns can possess. Here is what I read online from “The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. A Practical and Authoritative Guide to...

I think you can say both - ? but await instruction from ppl with more interest in the nuts and bolts of grammar than I have!! my GUESS is - in the first the "me telling you" is a verb form, so the me is a personal pronoun and "telling" is the progressive aspect of the verb... in the second...