Hi Ivanhr, and welcome to English Forums. Yes, you will hear "I appreciate you coming" very often. Technically, yes, it should be "your coming" because (as Anonymous has pointed out) it's the act of coming that

Cool breeze, I'm confused by your reply, because I don't see "two consecutive genitives formed with apostrophes" in the phrase "my neighbor Jim's car exploded." Hi khoff You have every right to be confused. I

For some reason two consecutive genitives formed with apostrophes are often avoided in English. My suggestion: The car of my neighbor Jim exploded last night . CB

In Helsinki English a more straightforward approach would be used: Neither the two dogs nor the cat received their food tonight. In case anyone insisted on including the pointless underlined words in the original post, a possessive apostrophe

My question (and the reason I found this post) is that I'm trying to find out if the correct plural is "uncle-in-law's" or "uncles-in-law", or if both are equally valid. Hmm. There are three possible things that

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

The first sentence isn't a natural one at all. Maybe something like "The women at the aerobics class worked hard to keep their bodies in shape." I'd use the plural there. With the children and their snacks, I'd use the

1) One has to work hard to realise one's goal. (BrE) Hi Yoong Liat You seem to like labeling things as BE or AmE, however in my opinion, your labels are often very misleading. Labeling something as BE suggests that it is not used in AmE, and

I agree with Philip the use of "one" tends to sound stuffy in many contexts, but that doesn't mean it always does, and that also doesn't mean that "one is not used in AmE. It seems to me that "one" has a much more