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Questions about the possessive, one of several constructions that describe ownership or association between two objects.
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Grammar: Forming Possessives
None of your sentences are particularly easy to understand for a native English speaker. I think what you mean is something like this:
In the problem description for the RED and BLUE entries, the …
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Can I say "Please find my yesterday’s and today’s daily reports in the documents."
In general English disallows using two different direct possessives together in the some noun phrase. … One of the possessives must be demoted to a prepositional phrase, and since my cannot be so demoted (since *of me is ungrammatical for other reasons), you have to move tomorrow to a prepositional phrase …
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Using quotes around a nickname that's in the possessive
The better question is, why are you putting the nickname in quotes at all? It is appropriate to do so the first time that you introduce a nickname, but subsequent uses do not require the quotes, and i …
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Explanation on when the possessive should be used instead of an attributive noun
All of your examples have something in common: though some of the attributives that you give have the form of noun phrases, they are all primarily adverbial in usage:
Today we're watching the news.
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Correct usage of pronoun: "their" vs "its"
In the sentence you gave, their is correct. The antecedent of the underlined pronoun is the stones, which is a plural noun phrase. Therefore the correct statement is:
The stones are small, but the …
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What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in "‑s"?
Your example sentences confuse two different problems.
For nouns that are plural (such as "boys"), the possessive is formed in writing by adding an apostrophe after the plural -s. This is pronounced t …
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Do things use apostrophe for indicating possessive?
The second and third phrases are correct:
The house's windows
The windows of the house
There is no requirement in the English language that possessors be people, and it's extremely common for …
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