Sequential Possessive Noun and Contraction
While creating a program that randomly creates sentences with available words that I have preprogrammed, I found a set of words that work together normally, but when combined are questionable.
That combination is a possessive followed directly be a contraction, such as:
My friend's name's Chris
Normally, if I were writing this sentence, I would have written
My friend's name is Chris.
I never would have thought to follow the possessive with a contraction.
So is that sentence correct or not? Is it correct but just awkward, or is it grammatically incorrect?
grammaticality possessives contractions
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While creating a program that randomly creates sentences with available words that I have preprogrammed, I found a set of words that work together normally, but when combined are questionable.
That combination is a possessive followed directly be a contraction, such as:
My friend's name's Chris
Normally, if I were writing this sentence, I would have written
My friend's name is Chris.
I never would have thought to follow the possessive with a contraction.
So is that sentence correct or not? Is it correct but just awkward, or is it grammatically incorrect?
grammaticality possessives contractions
edited 2 days ago
Barmar
9,6251429
asked 2 days ago
Christopher Rucinski
10516
Correct but awkward, IMHO.
– Barmar
2 days ago
add a comment |
While creating a program that randomly creates sentences with available words that I have preprogrammed, I found a set of words that work together normally, but when combined are questionable.
That combination is a possessive followed directly be a contraction, such as:
My friend's name's Chris
Normally, if I were writing this sentence, I would have written
My friend's name is Chris.
I never would have thought to follow the possessive with a contraction.
So is that sentence correct or not? Is it correct but just awkward, or is it grammatically incorrect?
grammaticality possessives contractions
edited 2 days ago
Barmar
9,6251429
asked 2 days ago
Christopher Rucinski
10516
While creating a program that randomly creates sentences with available words that I have preprogrammed, I found a set of words that work together normally, but when combined are questionable.
That combination is a possessive followed directly be a contraction, such as:
My friend's name's Chris
Normally, if I were writing this sentence, I would have written
My friend's name is Chris.
I never would have thought to follow the possessive with a contraction.
So is that sentence correct or not? Is it correct but just awkward, or is it grammatically incorrect?
grammaticality possessives contractions
grammaticality possessives contractions
edited 2 days ago
Barmar
9,6251429
asked 2 days ago
Christopher Rucinski
10516
edited 2 days ago
Barmar
9,6251429
asked 2 days ago
Christopher Rucinski
10516
edited 2 days ago
Barmar
9,6251429
edited 2 days ago
Barmar
9,6251429
edited 2 days ago
Barmar
9,6251429
9,6251429
asked 2 days ago
Christopher Rucinski
10516
asked 2 days ago
Christopher Rucinski
10516
asked 2 days ago
Christopher Rucinski
10516
10516
Correct but awkward, IMHO.
– Barmar
2 days ago
add a comment |
Correct but awkward, IMHO.
– Barmar
2 days ago
Correct but awkward, IMHO.
– Barmar
2 days ago
Correct but awkward, IMHO.
– Barmar
2 days ago
add a comment |
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Correct but awkward, IMHO.
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