On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 04:00 PM, Chris Searles wrote:
> ...just wondering what has become of the "genitive
> s" (='s) in American English. My mother is English and lives in the
> States and she's always struck by its absence everywhere you go in the
> US.
>
> I'm not trying to be mean to Rick, but was just curious if his oversight
> is really that typical of a more general trend.
Do American schools still teach that "'s" is the appropriate usage for
possessive nouns? Yes. Does an increasingly large segment of the
population forget or ignore this instruction? Sadly, also yes.
sj
http://homepage.mac.com/stevehj
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