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Messier42 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

how do they sound different ?

I have been trying to get this old picture of her printed.

I have been trying to print this old picture print.

How do they sound different?
  

Top answer

The second one isn't right. I think you mistyped something? g.

  • The second one isn't right.
  • I think you mistyped something?
  • g.
  • on your own printer at home.
  • "...
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The second one isn't right. I think you mistyped something? You can say "I have been trying to print this old picture (of her)"; this usually implies that you are trying to print it yourself, e.g. on your own printer at home.

"... get this old picture of her printed" typically means that you are trying to find someone else who can print it (e.g. a professional printer).
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Hi everyone!

Can we say, "I have been trying to print this old picture of her's"?

Thanks
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Hi. No, her's is incorrect.
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Thank you. Actually it was told by a guy who tired to print it out by himself. Can it be used as " get something printed out" in this situation?
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fatimah0786Can we say, "I have been trying to print this old picture of her's"?
If the picture belongs to her, it's hers. (Not her's.) It doesn't matter what is in the picture.
If the picture shows her, it's "of her".

Look at this picture of hers. (The picture is one of the pictures that she owns. Maybe it shows a lake or a mountain or
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Thanks for answering.

Can we say, "Usually when people come to this part of the town they usually visit the museum, but her's was a different case"?
Is her's possible in this or some other sentence?
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fatimah0786Can we say, "Usually when people come to this part of the town they usually visit the museum, but her's was a different case"?Is her's possible in this or some other sentence?
No, again that should be "hers". In modern English "her's" is always wrong.
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fatimah0786Is her's possible in this or some other sentence?
No. It's never correct. It's always written 'hers'. No apostrophe.

The only exception I can think of might be something like "John and her's car", but in that case the 's goes after the whole expression, not after 'her'. [John and her] 's car. And anyway, this is informal.
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CalifJimThe only exception I can think of might be something like "John and her's car",
Which "her" do you envisage that being? Possessive or objective?
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GPYWhich "her" do you envisage that being? Possessive or objective?
If it has an officially sanctioned case at all, it must be objective, but it's more like an ad hoc case for the sake of recording what some people say. It's a total mish-mash. I've also heard "John and I's car", so there's no consistency in the grammatical case that people choose.

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