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Michaelting Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

('s)

From my understanding, 's is used to show possession over something.

With that being said, is it

Australia National Day or Australia's National Day

Melbourne's culture or Melbourne culture or the culture of Melbourne

Sydney people or Sydney's people or people of Sydney
  

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English is rather flexible in these matters and people sometimes have many ways to express an idea. What sounds best or most idiomatic often varies from case to case and no hard and fast rules can be given. For example, Californians talk about California wine.

— Cool Breeze

  • English is rather flexible in these matters and people sometimes have many ways to express an idea.
  • What sounds best or most idiomatic often varies from case to case and no hard and fast rules can be given.
  • For example, Californians talk about California wine.
  • This is a collocation of a proper noun (California) followed by a common noun (wine).
  • The same people are unlikely to talk about Spain wine, though.
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English is rather flexible in these matters and people sometimes have many ways to express an idea. What sounds best or most idiomatic often varies from case to case and no hard and fast rules can be given. For example, Californians talk about California wine. This is a collocation of a proper noun (California) followed by a common noun (wine). The same people are unlikely to talk about
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That's rather hard to do as there is nearly no native speaker in my part of the city.

I guess I would just avoid the words that I deem as confusive(or confusing?) and replace them with simpler words.
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