Can I say “Please find my yesterday’s and today’s daily reports in the documents.”

Question

Can I say "Please find my yesterday’s and today’s daily reports in the documents."?

Answer 1

No, you cannot say "Please find my yesterday’s and today’s daily reports in the documents."

You can say:

Please find yesterday’s and today’s daily reports in the documents. (as suggested by Steve Melnikoff)

Or, you can also say:

Please find my daily reports from yesterday and today in the documents. (as suggested by Bruno Rothgiesser)

Answer 2

No.

In general English disallows using two different direct possessives together in the some noun phrase. Using possessive my and possessive tomorrow's to modify the word reports results in a sentence that I find ungrammatical. One of the possessives must be demoted to a prepositional phrase, and since my cannot be so demoted (since *of me is ungrammatical for other reasons), you have to move tomorrow to a prepositional phrase:

Please find my daily reports from yesterday and today in the documents.

(This is the same corrected version that Bruno gave, but unlike Bruno I find the original to be ungrammatical, and the corrected version to be necessary, not just stylistically preferred.)

Answer 3

Yes, because:

1. You can use a possessive pronoun followed by a word with 's (i.e. the saxon genitive). For example, "my last year's tax refund".

2. You can use 's in more than one word in the same sentence. For example, "Here you can review yesterday's, today's and tomorrow's horoscope."

Having said that, I would reword your sentence to make it sound more natural:

Please find my daily reports from yesterday and today in the documents.