To: rhema
How are we to explain the "smartest woman in the world's" repetitious use of "you know"?
QUESTION: Is the appostophe denoting the possessive form in "world's" in the correct position?
85 posted on
02/24/2007 12:38:35 PM PST by
Carolinamom
(Whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure -- President Bush SOTU)
To: Carolinamom
That should have been "apostrophe. Sorry.
87 posted on
02/24/2007 12:41:50 PM PST by
Carolinamom
(Whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure -- President Bush SOTU)
To: Carolinamom
How are we to explain the "smartest woman in the world's" repetitious use of "you know"? QUESTION: Is the appostophe denoting the possessive form in "world's" in the correct position? I'm not completely sure, but I think it is. "Smartest woman in the world" seems almost a kind of compound noun, on the order of "The Secretary of State's interpretation was disputed." Maybe someone with a better grammar acumen than mine can give a more authoritative explanation.
96 posted on
02/24/2007 12:50:12 PM PST by
rhema
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To: Carolinamom
"How are we to explain the "smartest woman in the world's" repetitious use of "you know"?
"QUESTION: Is the appostophe denoting the possessive form in "world's" in the correct position?
The apostrophe is correct in that it denotes possession. I would, however, hyphenate the "smartest woman in the world's" to read, smartest-woman-in-the-world's.
105 posted on
02/24/2007 1:01:03 PM PST by
baubau
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