Possessive pronoun must agree in gender and number with the noun in the phrase they replace. Each possessive pronoun must agree in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural) with ...

When I saw “men’s’ clothing” with two apostrophes, I figured it must be a typo. I was editing a professional writer who’s been on the job for years, and I know from experience that writers make typos, ...

IT'S very well-established in English grammar that (1) the verb must always agree with the number — singular or plural — of the noun or pronoun that does or states the action, and that (2) the pronoun ...

Possessives shouldn't be difficult. In many languages, they're not. In French for example, to talk about the car belonging to Robert, you just say "the car of Robert": la voiture de Robert. Spanish ...

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