1. The shirt he wore in this year's high school reunion was smaller than the one he wore at last year's. (But better: than the one he wore last year.) 2. The year-end sales figure for our company was higher than last year's. OK. 3.

Should the following sentences take the possessive gerund? If so, why? Thank you " In spite of vehicle sales rising 17 per cent " "These proposed changes are central to Cattles achieving a more cost-efficient

" The colour of my driver's license is red." You could use such a sentence.

No possessive punctuation . that of takes care of the possessive.

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

"I live in a small house with my parents and my brother and sister" In the sentence above, are supposed to use and article or a possessive pronoun before brother and sister ? ...or while talking about father... "I have a father.

Sentences like "I live with my parents and brother and sister" or while talking about fathers or mothers mentioning them time after time, do we use a definite article or are we supposed to use a possessive pronoun each time? e.g.

Hi Anon Part of your difficulty might be due to the fact that you have some typos/errors in your sentences. I'm at your dad ' s house. Are you Brittany's brother. You add an apostrophe and an S ( 's ) to the end of a noun to

The sentence is... The train ride of twelve hours exhausted Aunt Lenice. the instructions say to rewrite the sentence using the possessive form of the noun.

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." I would think the the rule you describe would