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Tommyensr Posted 20 years ago
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00Tommy's teacher is teaching Mathematics.02br
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00may i write "Tommy teacher" because i saw it somewhere.02br
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00He is a same person? (a teacher of tommy)02br
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00Thanks0-
  

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0 If you are trying to say "a teacher of Tommy", Tommy's teacher is the only way I know.02br
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00But I know in certain countries where "Teacher Tommy" is used to refer to a teacher whose name is Tommy.0-
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0Agree. It should be "Tommy's teacher". You may have seen a wrong use, Tommyensr.02br
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00"Tommy teacher" sounds to me as the teacher teaches only those persons whose names are "Tommy". And he doesn't teach any Jays, Ruslanas, etc. I may be wrong here, though, because my ears are not a native speaker's.0-

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