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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Your desk drawer or your desk's drawer
Hi. What do we have to do when we are confronted with a situation that seems to offer two viable (correct?) choices like this one? I think the choice is between making the underlined part possessive or attributive (to make it serve adjectivally? (if this is the right word))
Please clean out your desk drawer.
Please clean out your desk's drawer.
Would the changing of the word (the possessive?) "your" to the definite article "the" make any difference?
Please clean out the desk drawer.
Please clean out the desk's drawer.
One more thing. If you have an empty space below the desk top, would you call it a drawer or desk drawer? It doesn't have anything that can be opened or closed (something like one with a handle on it), just an empty space (if I explain the detail correctly -- not sure though).
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Please clean out your desk drawer.
Please clean out your desk's drawer.
Would the changing of the word (the possessive?) "your" to the definite article "the" make any difference?
Please clean out the desk drawer.
Please clean out the desk's drawer.
One more thing. If you have an empty space below the desk top, would you call it a drawer or desk drawer? It doesn't have anything that can be opened or closed (something like one with a handle on it), just an empty space (if I explain the detail correctly -- not sure though).
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The noun as adjective is the normal use, with or without your/the/that/etc. Save 's for human and human-like possessors.
- The noun as adjective is the normal use, with or without your/the/that/etc.
- Save 's for human and human-like possessors.
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The noun as adjective is the normal use, with or without your/the/that/etc. Save 's for human and human-like possessors.
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