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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Is :'s" needed or not?
Which is the correct form:
newspaper clippings
or
newspaper's clippings?
What is the general rule?
newspaper clippings
or
newspaper's clippings?
What is the general rule?
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Anonymous Which is the correct form:newspaper clippings ornewspaper's clippings? newspaper clippings Anonymous What is the general rule? Generally, only people and people-like entities use the -'s possessive form: My wife's hat, my dog's tail.
- Anonymous Which is the correct form:newspaper clippings ornewspaper's clippings?
- newspaper clippings Anonymous What is the general rule?
- Generally, only people and people-like entities use the -'s possessive form: My wife's hat, my dog's tail.
- Other nouns use the 'of' possessive or take the form of an adjective : The leg of my table is broken.
- My table leg is broken.
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AnonymousWhich is the correct form:newspaper clippings ornewspaper's clippings?newspaper clippings
AnonymousWhat is the general rule?Generally, only people and people-like entities use the -'s possessive form: My wife's hat, my dog's tail. Other nouns use the 'of' possessive or take the form of an adjective
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newspaper clippings is the correct form. The noun is used as an adjective in the sense that the clippings are made from a newspaper. This is used for other materials, eg.:
a gold necklace, not gold's necklace
a steel gate, not steel's gate
a gold necklace, not gold's necklace
a steel gate, not steel's gate
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Use "newspaper" in this case.
The VERY general rule (meaning there are a lot of exceptions) is that with many inanimate objects, you use the noun as a modifier. Car door, table leg, newspaper clipping, pencil cup.
However, there are many times when you do use the apostrophe s, when you want to refer to a specific car, a specific table, etc.
See how this table's leg has a scra
The VERY general rule (meaning there are a lot of exceptions) is that with many inanimate objects, you use the noun as a modifier. Car door, table leg, newspaper clipping, pencil cup.
However, there are many times when you do use the apostrophe s, when you want to refer to a specific car, a specific table, etc.
See how this table's leg has a scra
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