Is it incorrect to make possessives of animals? No. This is the dog's dish. CJ

Hello JJ, Always the latter. All the best, MrP

Do you write: My mother’s- in- law Southern hospitality or My mother- in- law's Southern hospitality?

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

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

My 12 year old son, a native English speaker, goes to school in Spain where we have lived since he was four. He has just come back from school with a 9 out of 10 in an English exam. He was marked down on the oral exam for pronouncing ¨girls´¨

Hi Pleasehelp More than one brother-in-law = brother s -in-law ...................................................................... The possessive form of "brother-in-law" is brother-in-law ' s (note the apostrophe!) The

I think the original post was referring to possessives in general, not just 'him'. Trad grams called my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their possessive adjectives . However, in many modern grammars they came to be called

Welcome to EF, badgrammar! I hope you'll soon be able to change your screen name to Good Grammar. It is correct to use the possessive form whose as a relative pronoun whenever a possessive form is needed: This house, whose windows are shut,

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