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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Genitive Case

Please, should I write:

- Band-Aid packages (or) Band-Aid's packages / Safety matches boxes (or) safety matches' boxes ? And why ?

- Teabags (or) tea bags ?

Thanks,

Shantra
  

Top answer

While inanimate objects CAN take the genitive (I don't want this table from the showroom floor. See? ), usually they don't.

— BarbaraPA

  • While inanimate objects CAN take the genitive (I don't want this table from the showroom floor.
  • See?
  • ), usually they don't.
  • A box of Band-Aids, the Band-Aids box.
  • Several boxes of safety matches, the safety matches boxes.
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While inanimate objects CAN take the genitive (I don't want this table from the showroom floor. See? This table's leg is sratched.), usually they don't.

A box of Band-Aids, the Band-Aids box.

Several boxes of safety matches, the safety matches boxes.
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Thanks, Grammar Geek. But, concerning to the word tea .Can I write it in these two forms: tea bag / teabag ?

Shantra.
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AnonymousThanks, Grammar Geek. But, concerning to the word tea .Can I write it in these two forms: tea bag / teabag ?

Shantra.
Both are fine.
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Band-Aid packages, safety match boxes or just match boxes, tea bags

CJ
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Thanks, Yoong Liat !

Shantra.
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Thanks, Calif Jim. By the way is it wrong to write teabags (together)?

Shantra.
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AnonymousThanks, Calif Jim. By the way is it wrong to write teabags (together)?

Shantra.
I thought that I had already answered earlier that both are fine.

Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learner states:: tea bag (also teabag).
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Ok. Thank you again, Yoong Liat !

Best wishes,

Shantra.
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it wrong to write teabags (together)?

No. I was just showing you what I normally write.

CJ
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