By Possessives, Punctuation

Sorry, but I'm still confused about the possession issue.For example, "car crash". Is this a possessive case?That movie, starring Nicolas Cage, "Lord of war". Why not "War lord" or "War's lord"? What's the difference? When do I have to use OF (Lord of war), 'S (War's lord) or "nothing" (War...

Is this the correct punctuation? Note that 'Slipknot' is being used as a collective noun. I realize that these feeling of pleasure were derived from my decision to listen to my hero’s, Slipknot's, voice.

GW, there are rules for these things (which unfortunately sometimes differ between AmE and BrE usage), and there is an over-riding guideline of clarity: if it gets too messy or iffy, reframe the sentence. With regard to your specific examples:The word 'and' can be used intermittently...

I am not sure why you see the usage of this nonfinite clause differently from that of the others you mention, SB. As with the independent clause, that is a pronomial referring to astonishment and of Mr. Bennet an of-possessive:Are you perhaps disturbed by the semicolons? I am, since the clause...

Apostrophe ( ' ) See Possessives for more information. The apostrophe is used when leaving out a letter or number in a contraction, e.g. can't, wouldn't. The apostrophe is used for omitted letters, e.g. rock 'n' roll, and for omitted numbers, e.g. the class of '72, the '20s. The...

My opinion is that compound nouns do not reflect possession. The first noun is simply an adjective (and as an adjective it is singular: cigarette brand, shoe store, computer market). As you say, in many cases either form will do, as your Microsoft logo /Microsoft's logo exemplifies-- the...

There are three basic rules, which I won't mention here. When a noun such as Keats is possessive, the lone apostrophe is fine and follows the rule. When the extra syllable is added, the extra s (Keats's is okay (Keats-uz).

There are several linguistic resources that help people express genericity(??, what's genercity?). Down below, it can be observed several forms that can also express something different than genericity(?)--awkward sentence. In the first pair of sentences one find two degrees of genericity...

Mr. Micawber, Question: Is the topic of apostrophe placement really part of "punctuation"? Since it has to do with the formation of the possessive case, I want to say it's grammar. What do you think? I know this is off-topic for the thread, but I was curious what the general view is on...

I am proofreading something for my church and the phrase "...to spread the good news throughout St. Dunstan’s neighborhoods..." is in one of the printed materials. This doesn't look right to me, because the name of the church is already a possessive. Is that the correct punctuation for a double...