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Believer Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

what are they modifying?

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00I was looking at the bartleby.com website on possessive constructions and came upon these.02br
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01i01u00a02u00 women's college -- to indicate a purpose??02i02br
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01i01u00a 02u00three months' journey 02i02br
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00What do the two "as" modify? It is my knowledge the articles usually modify the nouns that immediately follow except when a noun functions as a sort of adjective as in "a 01u00children's02u00 center." Here, 01i00children's 02i00is functioning as an adjective, I think. 0-
  

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0 Hi Believer02br 02br 00a college, a journey02br 02br 00Cheers02br 00CB0-

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0 Hi Believer02br
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0Thank you, Incho.02br
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00So to recap the whole thing, if that is possible, it is that genitive can express several things which can include 'possession', 'purpose' and 'classification' , and putting 'a' or 'an' before a noun doesn't necessary mean that the article is modfying the very noun that follows it but rather, the noun that comes after the noun that comes right a

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