Questions tagged [possessives]
for questions about words and word forms used to indicate ownership, belonging, or a similar relationship.
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in others' eyes
"I have seen a trace of strain
In other's eyes, not spoken"
From the song: "The Sea Refuses No River" by Pete Townshend.
Source:
https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/...
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“A student /student's misbehaving with his teachers…”
Is there any difference between these two sentences? Which is the appropriate sentence to use?
A student misbehaving with his teachers is so disrespectful.
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Possessive “ ’s ” with days in a week: “Monday trip” vs “Monday’s trip”
When should I use ’s when using days in a week like Monday, Tuesday, and so on when these are used attributively in front of other nouns?
I don’t like Monday trips. Does this say that trips take ...
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Personal pronoun with a gerund or infinitive?
My father never approved _____ a foreigner.
a. her to marry
b. her marrying
c. she marrying
d. she not marry
Please answer the question with an explanation.
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Tense reference
He objected to the accusations being raised.
What he objects to is: the accusations that were being raised or the proposal that they should be raised?
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Possesive apostrophe VS "of" when the modifying noun is inanimate. (an art gallery’s ground floor VS the ground floor of an art gallery)
I was writing an essay describing the floor plan of an art gallery a few months ago. When I wrote:
The diagrams compare the layout of an art gallery’s ground floor as it was in 2015 with its current ...
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Who have vs. With (What's the difference?)
Someone who has something.
Someone with something.
What is the difference between the two sentences?
Here is the question I got in GMAT:
In 1776 Adam Smith wrote that it is young people who ...
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Comparison by 'as'
If I have two questions and both of them can be solved by the same concept then if I want to say that 'the explanation of second sentence is same as first sentence'.
Is it correct, can I say this?
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Galois Theory -- an implied genitive or not genitive at all?
In the field of mathematics there are many concepts named after certain individuals: the Pythagoras's theorem, Galois theory, Hilbert space and so forth. In my native tongue of Finnish the person's ...
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"the river's outlet to the sea" — Why is the possessive case correct here?
britannica.com:
(1) the river's outlet to the sea
What rule allows the use of the possessive case in this specific example?
my variant:
(2) the river outlet to the sea
What's the difference between (1)...
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London Underground/London's Underground/The London Underground
Is it correct to say:
This is Bangkok Metro.
This is London Underground.
This is New York Subway.
(Without "the" and without possessive 's)
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Can possessive pronouns take the saxon genitive (i.e., "mine's")?
In a sentence like "My friend's grandfather's life was probably easier than mine's", is "mine's" a correct replacement for "my granfather's life", or do I really need to ...
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Possessive + non-ing noun phrase (Your joining the forum)
From a grammar book, I got this example of gerund transformation:
Adam joined the forum.
Transformed into a gerund phrase:
Adam's joining the forum
What if there is a noun before joining like ...
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When a foreign name takes the possessive, does it "always" follow English pronunciation? [closed]
So I was asking this question on ChatGPT
How to pronounce Bézout's Identity?
Since Bézout is a French name, I expected it sounded like "BAY-zoos" (the silent t in French), but the AI told ...
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Why "camera matrix" and not "camera's matrix"?
I work in software development. In computer vision, a camera matrix is something that describes the mapping of 3D points to 2D image points (see this).
A colleague of mine suggests that it should be ...
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