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Debpriya De Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Use of apostrophe

1. Yesterday, I went to my uncle's house, who is an architect.
2. Yesterday, I went to my uncle who is an architect's house.
Do both the sentences mean the same ?
  

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Come on, DD-- you can do better than that. Your uncle is not a house and a house is not an architect! Native speakers do not let themselves be cornered by such concocted problems.

— Mister Micawber

  • Come on, DD-- you can do better than that.
  • Your uncle is not a house and a house is not an architect!
  • Native speakers do not let themselves be cornered by such concocted problems.
  • Yesterday, I went to the house of my uncle, who is an architect.
  • Yesterday I went to my architect uncle's house.
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Come on, DD-- you can do better than that. Your uncle is not a house and a house is not an architect! Native speakers do not let themselves be cornered by such concocted problems.

Yesterday, I went to the house of my uncle, who is an architect.
Yesterday I went to my architect uncle's house.
Yesterday I went to my uncle's house. He's an architect.
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