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A's and B's or A and B's [duplicate]
I wanted to express something that both A and B have.
For example, to compare two operating systems, I wrote:
Apple's and Google's mobile operating systems ...
But my colleague said, to make it ...
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How to Construct an Unambiguous Joint Possessive that Follows a Verb?
How to Construct an Unambiguous Joint Possessive that Follows a Verb?
I've read that when writing about multiple possessors who jointly posses a thing, the common practice is to add a Saxon-genitive ...
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How to denote possession with “Bureau of Statistics” [duplicate]
When denoting possession with Bureau of Statistics, does one use "Bureau's of Statistics" or "Bureau of Statistics'"?
E.g.
according to the Bureau's of Statistics Consumer Price Index
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“Whomever runs it's” or “whomever runs its”?
I know that "its" is the possessive form of "it", but does this rule apply to the possessive form of phrases ending in "it"? Should I say, "the program runs on whomever runs its computer" or "the ...
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Possession in Compound Nouns [duplicate]
In a compound noun with a postpositive adjective, such as "Director-General" or "Court Martial," the noun is pluralized by using the plural form of the first word (i.e. "Directors-General" or "Courts ...
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Saxon genitive usage question
My colleagues are in the design department of a given product, and when asked to add that information to the e-mail signature, they have written:
ProductName's Design
I'm objecting that the ...
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Is using the possessive 's correct in “the car's antenna”?
I know that to mark possession of an item you can use 's like in the following example:
The user's password shall not be blank.
However, is it correct to use the following:
The car's antenna ...
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Do things use apostrophe for indicating possessive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is using the possessive 's correct in “the car's antenna”?
If someone owns something I would say: Mom's car.
But if the owner is not a person, does ...
