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Questions about the possessive, one of several constructions that describe ownership or association between two objects.
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If my grandparent is deceased, do I refer to them as "is" or "was" my grandparent?
You would use the word was because that means before, is means that they are currently your grandparents but because of their nonexistence it's not possible for them to be anything. They were once you …
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