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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
A person's identity
"It will introduce a new way of confirming a person's identity."
I have seen the sentence and I was wondering if the structure of "a person's identity" is a + person's identity or a person's + identity, so my question is that a modifies identity or a modifies person? What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much in advance.
I have seen the sentence and I was wondering if the structure of "a person's identity" is a + person's identity or a person's + identity, so my question is that a modifies identity or a modifies person? What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much in advance.
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It's "a person's" + "identity".
- It's "a person's" + "identity".
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Thank you so much as usual and I have another question. There is an expression, a spider's landing pad and I heard that the structure is "a + spider's landing pad" and then which one makes "a" modifies the noun right after it like "a person's" or the noun phrase like "a + spider's landing pad"?
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It depends on whether "X's Y" is viewed as a thing in its own right. There is no such thing as a "person's identity"; it only ever means the identity of a person. However, certain set combinations or common combinations, such as "a hair's breadth" or "a rat's nest", can be considered things in their own right. Some cases are probably ambiguous. I have never heard of "a spider's landing pad", so I
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