Verona_82
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- Oct 15, 2010
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Hello,
One of the questions from a test asks students to make a three-word combination using the possessive form and/or the preposition 'of'; students are also supposed to use articles. I found the following word string a bit strange; it reads
friends, cars, nephew
Is the most natural combination
the nephew's friends' cars (the artcile here refers to 'nephew', doesn't it?)
or
(the) cars of the nephew's friends (again, the article refers to 'nephew')
? :-?
I'd definitely use the pronoun before 'nephew', but I have to stick to the task.
Thank you!
One of the questions from a test asks students to make a three-word combination using the possessive form and/or the preposition 'of'; students are also supposed to use articles. I found the following word string a bit strange; it reads
friends, cars, nephew
Is the most natural combination
the nephew's friends' cars (the artcile here refers to 'nephew', doesn't it?)
or
(the) cars of the nephew's friends (again, the article refers to 'nephew')
? :-?
I'd definitely use the pronoun before 'nephew', but I have to stick to the task.
Thank you!