As far as I understand, a possessive adjective is placed before a noun : This is his car . A possessive pronoun cannot have a noun after it: This car is his . However, in many European countries terminology is different and the term possessive

its all about the subject of possessive phrase Men's car - possessive (correct by usage) M e n is already plural in form. M a n is singular in form. Cheers! Text&Colour

Is it true that when it comes to inanimate objects, it is wrong to use " 's " and should always be "of" structure instead? No. The car's door. The monitor's screen. Here is a link to a blog entry that has thorough

Hey, In this case the correct form is The Writers' Place. This usage of the apostrophe is called Possessive case or genitive. If you have a singular noun or an irregular plural noun you should add 's . If you have a plural noun ending in S

Hi Taka If you were supposed to pick up one of the two which sounds the more natural, which would it be? 'You need to make more efforts' over 'You need to make more effort', because it is modified by 'more'? If you look at

. I see nothing to disagree about. The original poster was relying on 'a' to determine the form of the possessive (of-genitive vs post-genitive). I said that 'a' is irrelevant. I now offer as an example: This was discussed in the

OK. Now I understand what you're saying. I don't see anything objectionable in the usage you show in those examples. When you are describing an experiment (or similar situation) involving people as subjects of study, you will naturally

I think possibly the"self-worker" sentences are almost using "have" in its possessive sense - I "have" a cooked dinner and a bathed baby, the same way I would "have" a diamond necklace - while the

My understanding is that possesive nouns always get an apostrophe. It wouldn't look right to use an apostrophe with a possessive pronoun, but is the same true, do possesive pronouns ever get an apostrophe, or never?

While the OED suggests 'possessive adjective (in modern usage also classed as a determiner)' Interesting... has "modern usage" increased the number of parts of speech, or just sub-classified them? The latter, it would seem ...