In Possessives^x, Literature^x

Feebs11 wrote: Hxcboatcaptain wrote:I'm wondering about a grammar rule that even my high school literature teacher couldn't help me with. For example, I know that if you're talking about two people (in the third person) sharing an item, you say, "Mom and Dad's car got totalled."If you mean...

Hxcboatcaptain wrote:I'm wondering about a grammar rule that even my high school literature teacher couldn't help me with. For example, I know that if you're talking about two people (in the third person) sharing an item, you say, "Mom and Dad's car got totalled."If you mean multiple objects...

I'm wondering about a grammar rule that even my high school literature teacher couldn't help me with. For example, I know that if you're talking two people (in the third person) sharing an item, you say, "Mom and dad's car got totalled."If you mean multiple objects two people own in common, you...

Perhaps one of you sent me this, or perhaps I have subscribed to this service and forgotten the fact, but at any rate the following serendipitiously arrived in my mailbox this morning: Possessive vs. Attributive Nouns ************************************************* If you enjoy this writing...

Encyclopedia describes a scorpion as a nocturnal arachnia that attacks and paralyses its prey with poison injected by the long curved tail, used both for defence and destruction. Its sting sometimes is fatal. People often draw back visibly when someone says he or she is born in November,...

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a language that is not even my own in depth when I...