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Yoong Liat Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

goldsmith / goldsmith's

Which sentence is correct?

The robbers robbed a goldsmith shop.
The robbers robbed a goldsmith's shop.




  

Top answer

The second option looks familiar to me. And it is propably the second one. Goldsmith is used to name the person who messes around gold.

— Spocik

  • The second option looks familiar to me.
  • And it is propably the second one.
  • Goldsmith is used to name the person who messes around gold.
  • Goldsmith's is always his shop's name, as blacksmith's.
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The second option looks familiar to me. And it is propably the second one.

Goldsmith is used to name the person who messes around gold.

Goldsmith's is always his shop's name, as blacksmith's.
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Spocik is right, but I am sure you will find the 1st one too in educated contexts, as it it here in the New York Times. Both correct to me, the 1st perhaps more in AmE.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0713FB3D540C738DDDA80894D0484D81

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