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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

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Let's have a bowmaker named John Smith. He has some stuff in his workshop. Which one of the following sentences is grammatically correct please?

...in John Smith's bowmaker workshop...
...in John Smith bowmaker's workshop...
...in John Smith's bowmaker's workshop...

Thanks for help.
  

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Anonymous Which one of the following sentences is grammatically correct please? These are not sentences. They are prepositional phrases.

  • Anonymous Which one of the following sentences is grammatically correct please?
  • These are not sentences.
  • They are prepositional phrases.
  • These are the most sensible forms: in the workshop of John Smith, the bow maker, in the workshop of the bow maker, John Smith,
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AnonymousWhich one of the following sentences is grammatically correct please?
These are not sentences. They are prepositional phrases.
These are the most sensible forms:

in the workshop of John Smith, the bow maker,
in the workshop of the bow maker, John Smith,
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Journalists tend to put the occupation first, writing such a phrase thus:

in bowmaker John Smith's workshop

CJ

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