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Troy Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Jeff Corwin Experience

There is a documentary show called "Jeff Corwin Experience", why shouldn't "Jeff Corwin's Experience" be used instead, is it wrong to put an apostrophe s there?

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It is probably called "The" Jeff Corwin Experience, when the name is effectively working as an adjective modifying the "experience". You get this a lot with show titles.

  • It is probably called "The" Jeff Corwin Experience, when the name is effectively working as an adjective modifying the "experience".
  • You get this a lot with show titles.
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It is probably called "The" Jeff Corwin Experience, when the name is effectively working as an adjective modifying the "experience". You get this a lot with show titles.
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Thanks Suzi & hitchhiker. Yeap, you're right, it's called "The Jeff Corwin Experience", so we can make 'name' or 'noun' as adjective?

Examples (these are titles of books, if we are going to rename them to make 'name' or 'noun' as adjective like 'The Jeff Corwin Experience', can we do as follows):

1. The Traveller's Handbook. (can we change it to "The traveller handbook" as wel
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Troy - I love your questions! Soooo demanding.

no 1 - IMHO - definitely NOT - presumably because "traveller" is general rather than a specific individual.

2 + 3 possibly acceptable. I'd be interested what others think. We are going into stylistics I think.

There is something about this construction which sounds a little pompous, as though the person using their n
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Thanks Suzi for your help again.

If "The Traveller's Handbook" cannot be written as "The traveller handbook" because 'traveller' is general, how about "The family party"? 'family' is also a noun which acts as adjective here, or "The paper shop", "The police car"?

Troy
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You see what I mean! You are such a demon for examples! I dunno! Maybe we are back in the realms of stylistics rather than patterns which follow predictable rules?

* *** .. working backwards from your original point about apostrophes, your e.g.s are not the same when you re-insert the possessive apostrophe
it is not:
the family's party (although it could be!)
the paper
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Haa..haaa...shows that how difficult for me to learn English. When I speak in mother tongue, I never think which one is 'noun' or which one is 'adjective', the thing is, I don't really have that kind of environment to get me accustomed to using English, I try to read more, but to learn through reading is somehow different from learning directly through interaction and conversation, because normal
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All I can say is that whatever you think your problems are - you are very fluent and obviously a skilled linguist, perhaps just something of a perfectionist! What is your mother tongue? Do you watch TV and moves is English, as the written word is generally more formal and speech patterns are more relaxed.

btw, yes -that general rule you found looks helpful.
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Wow...that's too big a compliment, I'm far from being a skilled linguist, and don't aspire to be a perfectionist. Anyway, thanks!
Sometimes I watch English movies and TV programmes, some of them are comparatively easier for me to understand, like 'Matrix'; some use a lot of slangs and I may need to do some guesswork, like '2 Fast 2 Furious'; some speak in local accent, which I find to be mor
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My feeling is that the experience being had is of Jeff Corwin by the viewer or listener, so no apostrophe applies.


John.

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