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for questions about words and word forms used to indicate ownership, belonging, or a similar relationship.

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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We have an article as well as a possessive word in the following sentence: "They were heading for an antiglobalists' tent camp in a Madrid suburb". However, according to Swan (Practical ...
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What should I say? The "island beaches are clean" or "the island's beaches are clean"? And when shouldn't I use possessives? Thanks in advance.
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In the movie Terminator, a guy says, Hey, I think this guy's a couple cans short of a six-pack. I think I can read Hey through guy's. Is that 's is short of is? or a possessive expression? What does ...
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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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If I refer to an artist, of whom I don’t know the gender, may I use the possessive its?
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Especially when I hear people talking about animals they sometimes say "cat leg" or cat's leg". What is the differecne? Without possessive s "cat" acts as a noun describing a ...
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A recent video on Youtube was titled as 'Kash Patel declares arrest of Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton's lawyer'. Now, how is this sentence supposed to be interpreted? Kash Patel declares arrest of [...
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