Timeline for Apostrophe for indicating possessive. How do I convince my professor?
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| Sep 15, 2015 at 13:34 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @fdb Utter nonsense. Critique is a perfectly good English verb. | |
| Sep 15, 2015 at 10:24 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | Your opinions on style are your own business; but you should know that this comment is automatically generated by Stack Exchange whenever a reviewer points out that a supposed 'answer' is in fact not so. | |
| Sep 15, 2015 at 10:18 | comment | added | fdb | @TimLymington. To employ "critique" as a verb is not good English style. | |
| Sep 15, 2015 at 10:08 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 18:34 | comment | added | TRiG | @DanBron Flag. Select "other". Type whatever you like. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 17:15 | comment | added | John Lawler | my email is jlawler at umich dot edu | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | Dan Bron | @AndrewLeach No fair! Also, is this a new thing? I've never seen it before. If I flag an answer, is there a way to suggest to you that this notation should be added? | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | @DanBron Mod-only :-) | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 15:55 | comment | added | Dan Bron | Can someone explain to me how an annotation was added below this answer requesting more information? I'd really like to be able to do that myself. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 15:19 | history | notice added | Andrew Leach♦ | Needs detailed answers | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 15:15 | comment | added | fresskoma | @JohnLawler That would be really great as a last-resort kind of thing, i.e. if there is no way of convincing him otherwise. May I provide him with your E-Mail address in that case? I'd of course write up a more detailed outline of the dispute, should it come to that :) | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 14:26 | comment | added | John Lawler | If your professor wishes to contact me, I will go into detail (if provided with more detail first). | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 14:26 | comment | added | John Lawler | How about a linguist from Michigan? (actually I'm retired now and live in Washington state, but I taught linguistics and English grammar at the University of Michigan for 37 years, and published a number of studies on the subject.) While it's true that mostly the Saxon genitive applies to humans and the Romance genitive to things, this is just a rule of thumb. In the example sentences given, @fdb has it right -- they are all good, proper, formal English sentences; whereas their transforms with Romance genitives are not improvements, and are often awkward and unnatural. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 14:06 | comment | added | curiousdannii | are you referring to yourself? Because I don't think that's common knowledge. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 13:07 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Sep 14, 2015 at 13:06 | comment | added | fdb | Maybe if he told him he heard it from a "linguist in Cambridge". | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 13:04 | comment | added | curiousdannii | And how exactly is this meant to convince the OP's professor? | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 12:34 | history | answered | fdb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |