Hello, can you please help me? 1) Can we say "the hotel was elegant"? I don´t know if we can use the word "elegant " for a hotel. 2) Possessive case: Is it ok in this case to write "The house of Paul´s

Do you write: My mother’s- in- law Southern hospitality or My mother- in- law's Southern hospitality?

Hello, could you help me with this? 1) Harry´s , Ron´s and Hermione´s mission was..... Do we have to place/say ´s with each of the names? It is their mission. But my doubt is that if I only add it to the last one, someone could

I have always known that after an indefinite pronoun, namely "everyone," "somebody" etc, the correct possessive pronoun to be used is "their." E.g.: Everyone should always do their best. However, the "Canadian

I have always known that after an indefinite pronoun, namely "everyone," "somebody" etc, the correct possessive pronoun to be used is "their." E.g.: Everyone should always do their best. However, the "Canadian

if I applied Finnish grammar to English. I promise never to apply English's grammar to Finnish. CJ

The subject of the gerund need not always be in a possessive form. Mind requires the gerund and that's why asking is a gerund in your example. In informal style the object form is often used: If you don't mind me/my asking... Insisting on

Notwen, you are right! My is a pronoun! Thank you for your help. You're welcome ! But I never said that 'my' had to be called a pronoun. On the contrary, it doesn't seem logical to me, as it has been explained. The majority of the

Dear BBG - Please try to be careful when you write. If you don't think carefully about every word you write, you will not learn why you make mistakes. Think about tenses - present, past, future. Think about plurals - is this one, or more than

Semantically, it makes a bit more sense to say The countries' leader s . Not to mention that the instructions said "Put ALL NOUNS in these phrases into the plural form." I believe leader is a noun. CJ