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Active 3 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 17k times. Improve this question. Steeven Steeven 2 2 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. A rock album whose cover shocked the world. There is only one possessive relative pronoun in English: whose.

I personally believe that it doesn't exist in English. Workarounds include things like "A rock album, where the cover shocked the world. Steeven, note too that you have: An image is read and sent to the function, the output of which is displayed. And note that words like wherein are sometimes used to avoid the issue.

Example, "A novel, wherein the hero is a dog. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. This is different from the problem we confront when creating possessives with compound constructions such as daughter-in-law and friend of mine. Generally, the apostrophe -s is simply added to the end of the compound structure: my daughter-in-law's car, a friend of mine's car. If this sounds clumsy, use the "of" construction to avoid the apostrophe: the car of a friend of mine, etc.

This is especially useful in pluralized compound structures: the daughters-in-law's car sounds quite strange, but it's correct. We're better off with the car of the daughters-in-law. See the section on Compound Nouns and Modifiers for additional help. When this happens, we drop the comma that would normally follow the appositive phrase. Create such constructions with caution, however, as you might end up writing something that looks silly:.

You're frequently better off using the "of-genitive" form, writing something like "We must get the signature of Joe Bidwell, the family attorney" and "I wrecked the car of my best friend, Bob.

Do we say "a friend of my uncle" or "a friend of my uncle's"? In spite of the fact that "a friend of my uncle's" seems to overwork the notion of possessiveness, that is usually what we say and write. The double possessive construction is sometimes called the "post-genitive" or " of followed by a possessive case or an absolute possessive pronoun" from the Oxford English Dictionary, which likes to show off.

The double possessive has been around since the fifteenth century, and is widely accepted. It's extremely helpful, for instance, in distinguishing between "a picture of my father" in which we see the old man and "a picture of my father's" which he owns. Native speakers will note how much more natural it is to say "He's a fan of hers" than "he's a fan of her.

Generally, what follows the "of" in a double possessive will be definite and human, not otherwise, so we would say "a friend of my uncle's" but not "a friend of the museum's [ museum, instead]. Clarendon Press: Oxford, England. Used with the permission of Oxford University Press. Examples our own. Skip to Plural Noun Forms. Forming Possessives Showing possession in English is a relatively easy matter believe it or not. By adding an apostrophe and an s we can manage to transform most singular nouns into their possessive form: the car's front seat Charles's car Bartkowski's book a hard day's work Some writers will say that the -s after Charles' is not necessary and that adding only the apostrophe Charles' car will suffice to show possession.

Instead of "the desk's edge" according to many authorities , we should write "the edge of the desk" and instead of "the hotel's windows" we should write "the windows of the hotel.

We would not say "the radio of that car" instead of "that car's radio" or the "car radio" and we would not write "the desire of my heart" instead of "my heart's desire. For expressions of time and measurement, the possessive is shown with an apostrophe -s : "one dollar's worth," "two dollars' worth," "a hard day's night," "two years' experience," "an evening's entertainment," and "two weeks' notice" the title of the Hollywood movie nothwithstanding.

Possessives versus Adjectival Labels Don't confuse an adjectival label sometimes called an "attributive noun" ending in s with the need for a possessive. Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe threw three touchdown passes. To create their possessive, simply add an apostrophe after the s : The Pepins' house is the big blue one on the corner. The lions' usual source of water has dried up. The gases' odors mixed and became nauseating. The witches' brooms were hidden in the corner.

The babies' beds were all in a row. In other words, use it to ask a question about which person did something or is someone. Yeah, we know—it sounds stuffy. And now, on to the spelling culprits. That means the apostrophe stands in for a letter that goes missing to make pronunciation easier and quicker.

Whose is a pronoun used in questions to ask who owns something or has something. In other words, whose is about possession. But apostrophes are also used in contractions. Like Blue. Whose clues? Well, we hope you do.