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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Elses or else's
How do you idiomatically write this?
Everyone has jackets that resemble everyone elses.
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Everyone has jackets that resemble everyone elses.
Thank you for your time.
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Everyone has jackets that resemble everyone else's - "else's" is posessive, and therefore the apostrophe is required: the jackets resemble those that belong to everyone else.
- Everyone has jackets that resemble everyone else's - "else's" is posessive, and therefore the apostrophe is required: the jackets resemble those that belong to everyone else.
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Everyone has jackets that resemble everyone else's - "else's" is posessive, and therefore the apostrophe is required: the jackets resemble those that belong to everyone else.
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