Rather simple solution in proper English... the possessive for wife is 'wife's' and the possessive for I is 'my'. so... "Can you get rid of my wife's and my middle initials..." should do the trick.

Dear friend, The judge announced a recess is correct; in it, recess means a period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended . *I can buy snacks at the school's

The first one is definitely correct. (object of the preposition) I'm not sure about the second one. It presents some interesting problems. While I think it's common to use or not use the possessive of a name in this case, (a friend of

What is the correct way to use an appositive with a possessive? For example: My neighbor, Jim's car exploded last night. Is this correct? What about commas? Thanks! No comma. My neighbor Jim's car ... These are usually restricted to

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

But often, using a noun as an adjective is idiomatic. For example, we say the church tower, castle walls , a pirate ship , star wars , monkey business , monkey shines, monkey wrench , etc. English is flexible about using words as different parts

When Eleanor lost both of her parents, she moved in with her grandmother, Mary Hall. Due to Eleanor 's shyness, she did not have many friends; basically her classmates thought that she was weird. The years that Eleanor spent with her

When Eleanor lost both of her parents, she moved in with her grandmother , Mary Hall . Students at Eleanor’s school thought that she was weird, and because of this she rarely had friends over , especially boys. Grandmother Hall was often mean to

It has fundamentally the same meaning for both people and things: the sense of "belonging to". "John's house" -- the house belonging to John "My friend's pen" -- the pen belonging to my friend