• Possessive 's special rules
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  • True or False? We can have two possessive ’s forms together
    True! We’re fed up with our neighbour’s tenant’s loud music
  • Complete the sentence. If the possessive form consists of a compound noun or two or more nouns which form a single team or group, we add the 's to ...
    We add the ’s to the last noun only: Are you coming to my brother-in-law’s party? (compound noun) I’m a great fan of Lerner and Lowe’s musicals. (They both wrot
  • Answer. When the nouns do not form a single group, how must we use ’s?
    We must use ’s with both nouns: Schrodinger’s and Heisenberg’s versions of quantum mechanics had seemed different. (two versions of the theory)
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