Not mines, but mine's (mine is). As in, "You cooked a good turkey, but mine's better."
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8Yes, it's fine.– d'alar'copCommented Feb 12, 2014 at 3:30
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1Most definitely yes in spoken English. I wouldn't use it in academic writing (but that may be just style?).– virmaiorCommented Feb 12, 2014 at 3:47
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Yes, but...
On the one extreme, just about any contraction is valid.
On the other extreme, there is a certain set of extremely common contractions (the negatives of auxiliaries in particular) that everyone agrees are good English, and after that you will find some people objecting, if only as a matter of taste.
The contraction of ’s for is is probably the next safest. Combining it with a genitive makes you slightly more likely to have someone object (because they argue it could be confused with genitive ’s) though that would still be more a matter of taste than correctness.
As such, I'd have absolutely no qualms about using it in informal English, but I might consider expanding the contraction in formal English; not so much to be correct, as to be inarguably correct.
answered Feb 12, 2014 at 10:22
