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Good evening, How can I explain the difference between each other and each other's? besides that 's is possessive? What are some examples with each other's? Thanks!!

I think the p's and q's argument is most salient here. The apostrophe is used for the sake of clarity. While conventionally used for the possessive, the apostrophe is also used to indicate vernacular omissions and contractions, such as in the cases of "Ol' Dirty ***" or...

Kenta wrote: Hello. Is there any difference between "stay home" and "stay at home"? I know both are OK, but if there is a slight difference, will you tell me? Thank you. home is an adverb so you say stay home. I dont think...

Philip wrote:My 1992 American Heritage Dictionary lists her/his/my as adjectives, being the possessive forms of she/he/I respectively. Amsco publications in French and Spanish c. 1987 both offer sections for possessive adjectives as opposed to possessive pronouns. I'm not sure when "old" ...

Cool Breeze wrote:Hi Philip'Possessive adjective' is indeed a good term to describe her in the sentences and the term 'pronoun' does suggest that a pronoun replaces a noun (pro + nomen). However, illogically perhaps, in old European grammatical terminology 'possessive adjective' is not used a...

Neeraj Jain wrote:Hi Hoa, I guess that your friend, Yong is right. You can use double possessives to help clarify the difference between a set and its subset. However, the sentence: John met a friend of me. is not correct. This is because "me" is not a possessive form. Neeraj,My 2-cent: ...

Hi Hoa, I guess that your friend, Yong is right. You can use double possessives to help clarify the difference between a set and its subset. However, the sentence: John met a friend of me. is not correct. This is because "me" is not a possessive form.

My friend, Yong, kept telling me that the above construct must be used since man's represents a set of friends that the man has. I believe he went too far.I understand double possessive is sometimes required to help clarify the difference between a set from its subset / element.For examples:1....

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Thanks... so then what is the difference between my previous example and this one ? I went to my parents' house. I went to my parents's house. I'm sure the latter is not correct in this case. Is the argument to go both ways in the 'Jones' example only because it's a name that ends in 'S' ?