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New2grammar Posted 19 years ago
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Hong Kong's citizens have been pressuring the Chinese goverment to grant independence to the region for a decade now. Some believe their efforts have yielded some indirect results like recently, a British ambassador criticized China for its slow delivery of full independence to the region.

Please correct any mistakes.

Thanks!
  

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New2grammar Please correct any mistakes. Thanks! Hong Kong 's citizens have been pressuring the Chinese goverment to grant Special Adminstrative Region the right to a general election (which is very different than independence) to the region for a decade now.

— Goodman

  • New2grammar Please correct any mistakes.
  • Thanks!
  • Hong Kong 's citizens have been pressuring the Chinese goverment to grant Special Adminstrative Region the right to a general election (which is very different than independence) to the region for a decade now.
  • Some believe their efforts have yielded some indirect results as a British ambassador recently criticized China for its slow delivery.
  • of full independence to the region.
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New2grammar

Please correct any mistakes.

Thanks!

Hong Kong's citizens have been pressuring the Chinese goverment to grant Special Adminstrative Region the right to a general election (which is very different than independence)
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Thank you Goodman. You are right, independence is not correct. But what I don't quite understand is "Hong Kong's citizens ". Why can't it take the possessive form? I know it is used even in the news but I do not know when to use which form. Could you explain to me, maybe with some examples?

Thanks again.
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This is my interpretation:

Hong Kong citizen = citicen of HK.

In the context of your paragraph, Hong Kong is functioning as an adjective, Therefore, I prefer to drop the possessive. However, possessive is not necessarily wrong either because one can interprete HK as a proper noun. Consider this: I am a United States' citizen, or United States citizen? Does that answer your ques
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Thank you Goodman. So, basically it depends on whether the writer views the country as an adjective or a proper noun.

In the context of your paragraph, Hong Kong is functioning as an adjective. => I'm curious to know which part of the paragraph gives you this information?

No, I'm not but I have friends who are
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Hong Kong's citizens is fine.
It is simply harder to do the same thing with "United States". We typically write "US citizens".
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Well, instead of my lengthy explanation. Let me give you something to chew on and see if you get it...

Hong Kong's Victoria Hourbor is thought to be one of the most beautiful in the world. Possessive is fine

Hong Kong government has been criticized for it's mishandling of the SARS crisis. No possessive.
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YankeeHong Kong's citizens is fine.
It is simply harder to do the same thing with "United States". We typically write "US citizens".

As I have pointed out, it's not wrong but my personal interpretation preferred dropping the possessive.
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GoodmanHong Kong government has been criticized for it's mishandling of the SARS crisis. No possessive.
You need the word "the" or the possessive form:

- The Hong Kong government
- The government of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong's government
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I think the passage is ok except for the underlined portion:

"...Some believe their efforts have yielded some indirect results like recently, a British ambassador criticized China for its slow delivery of full independence to the region."

Did you want to try an alternative, New2?

MrP
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