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Questions about the possessive, one of several constructions that describe ownership or association between two objects.

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Double apostrophe-s?

No. It's best to avoid such constructs entirely, and (as this site and others recommend) create the possessive with a prepositional phrase like the parking at McDonald's.
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"Your and my [something]" vs "Yours and my..."

It comes back to our old friends, the possessive pronouns (my, our, your, his, her, its, and their), which qualify nouns (my native language), and their independent (aka absolute) forms (mine, ours, y …
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How to say "She/He is my girlfriend/boyfriend" without the possessive "my"

Simply use we: We are partners. We are seeing each other exclusively. We are boyfriend and girlfriend. (If you really need to spell it out...)
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"Writer's writer" — who can say it?

One doesn't have to be a writer to be aware of the level of adulation that someone like, say, the late David Foster Wallace received in reviews that were written by people who themselves have more lit …
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