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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

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Are the phrases: "the president's office's name is.../ the president's house's name is..."- gramatically acceptable?
  

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"- gra mm atically acceptable? Yes. You can join together as many possessives as you want.

— CalifJim

  • "- gra mm atically acceptable?
  • Yes.
  • You can join together as many possessives as you want.
  • My mother's father's mother is my great grandmother.
  • CJ
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Anonymous Are the phrases: "the president's office's name is.../ the president's house's name is..."- grammatically acceptable?
Yes. You can join together as many possessives as you want.

My mother's father's mother is my great grandmother.

CJ
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I agree that they are possible, but think that the name of the president's office/house is more natural.
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yes of course grammatically Emotion: smile pardon me. I was wondering because it is often said that we shouldn't use " 's" with things and I thou
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Anonymous it is often said that we shouldn't use " 's" with things
That's good practical advice. My comments pertained only to sequential 's.

CJ
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