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Fred and I's schedule
I was checking out a website and came across the following sentence.
Sorry for the down time on here, but sometimes Fred & I's schedule eat us up and we can't take the time to update this as much as we'd like
I noticed how difficult that sentence flowed when by using "Fred and I's". Didn't look like correct grammar to me.
What would be a more correct way of rendering that sentence?
Would this be a better rendering:
Sorry for the down time on here, but sometimes Fred's and my schedule..
Or is that not much of an improvement, and as such the sentence should be constructed differently?
thanks,
Sorry for the down time on here, but sometimes Fred & I's schedule eat us up and we can't take the time to update this as much as we'd like
I noticed how difficult that sentence flowed when by using "Fred and I's". Didn't look like correct grammar to me.
What would be a more correct way of rendering that sentence?
Would this be a better rendering:
Sorry for the down time on here, but sometimes Fred's and my schedule..
Or is that not much of an improvement, and as such the sentence should be constructed differently?
thanks,
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[/nq] That's exactly what I would use. Anytime a pronoun is an element of a compound, there simply is no possessive form for the compound, so each element has to be made possessive separately. " This is yet another place where "me and" crops up in some people's speech.
- [/nq] That's exactly what I would use.
- Anytime a pronoun is an element of a compound, there simply is no possessive form for the compound, so each element has to be made possessive separately.
- " This is yet another place where "me and" crops up in some people's speech.
- That's probably where "and I" came from again.
- ¬R
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[nq:1]Sorry for the down time on here, but sometimes Fred's and my schedule.............[/nq]
That's exactly what I would use. Anytime a pronoun is an element of a compound, there simply is no possessive form for the compound, so each element has to be made possessive separately. In a larger compound, sometimes I hear just the last noun in the list made possessive, as though the nouns formed a
That's exactly what I would use. Anytime a pronoun is an element of a compound, there simply is no possessive form for the compound, so each element has to be made possessive separately. In a larger compound, sometimes I hear just the last noun in the list made possessive, as though the nouns formed a
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[nq:1]In a larger compound, sometimes I hear just the last noun in the list made possessive, as though the nouns formed a compound in themselves: "Fred, Kate, Cindy, Keith's, and my schedule."[/nq]
You all have the same schedule. If schedule were plural, then I would give each of the names an 's: "Fred's, Kate's, Cindy's, Keith's, and my schedules."
John Varela
Trade NEW lamps for
You all have the same schedule. If schedule were plural, then I would give each of the names an 's: "Fred's, Kate's, Cindy's, Keith's, and my schedules."
John Varela
Trade NEW lamps for
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[nq:1]I was checking out a website and came across the following sentence. Sorry for the down time on here, ... and I's". Didn't look like correct grammar to me. What would be a more correct way of rendering that sentence?[/nq]
Fred's schedule and mine eat us up... ??
Fred's schedule and mine eat us up... ??
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[nq:1]Sorry for the down time on here, but sometimes Fred & I's schedule eat us up and we can't take ... I noticed how difficult that sentence flowed when by using "Fred and I's". Didn't look like correct grammar to me.[/nq]
It's not. The possessive form of 'I' is "my" or "mine" not "I's".
[nq:1]What would be a more correct way of rendering that sentence?[/nq]
"...Fred's and my schedul
It's not. The possessive form of 'I' is "my" or "mine" not "I's".
[nq:1]What would be a more correct way of rendering that sentence?[/nq]
"...Fred's and my schedul
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Or "Fred's schedule and mine..."
Or "Fred and I are sorry for the...our schedule..."
Or "Fred and I are sorry for the...our schedule..."
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[nq:2]It's not. The possessive form of 'I' is "my" or "mine" not "I's".[/nq]
Quite correct. "I's" is a contraction found in some English dialects, as in "I's tired from all this work." Often pronounced "ah's"
Anyone whose nose threatens to go out of joint might check out .
It's also one form of the plural of the letter "I".
Bob Lieblich
Making no value judgments
Quite correct. "I's" is a contraction found in some English dialects, as in "I's tired from all this work." Often pronounced "ah's"
Anyone whose nose threatens to go out of joint might check out .
It's also one form of the plural of the letter "I".
Bob Lieblich
Making no value judgments
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[nq:2]Sorry for the down time on here, but sometimes Fred's and my schedule..[/nq]
[nq:1]That's exactly what I would use. Anytime a pronoun is an element of a compound, there simply is no possessive form for the compound, so each element has to be made possessive separately.[/nq]
At some point I heard or read a rule to this effect:
"Fred and Alice's car" they share one car
"Fr
[nq:1]That's exactly what I would use. Anytime a pronoun is an element of a compound, there simply is no possessive form for the compound, so each element has to be made possessive separately.[/nq]
At some point I heard or read a rule to this effect:
"Fred and Alice's car" they share one car
"Fr
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