How should we make possessive with somebody else? Somebody else's/Somebody's else.

[Aamir Tariq]

When the car belongs to somebody else.

It was somebody else's car.
It was somebody's else car.
It was of somebody else car.
The car was of somebody else.

How to make possessive with "somebody else".

Regards
Aamir the Global Citizen

 

[Barb_D]

It was somebody else's car.

 

[Aamir Tariq]

It was somebody else's car.

That's what I also thought, but what confused me was when I wrote it here it was rejected by the speller checker and the read line appeared under it.

 

[emsr2d2]

Spell checkers and grammar checkers aren't infallible.

Note that a red line appeared, not a read line.

I just typed the correct sentence into this post as a test and no line appeared so it appears there is an issue with your spelling checker.

 

[Aamir Tariq]

Spell checkers and grammar checkers aren't infallible.

Note that a red line appeared, not a read line.

I just typed the correct sentence into this post as a test and no line appeared so it appears there is an issue with your spelling checker.

My spell checker is set to American English, it also rejects spellings used in British English. Anyway I am sorry about the read line, I was supposed to write red but it got typed by mistake. I am sorry about the typing mistake. Anyway the read line sounds like Australian or Kiwi accent.

 

[emsr2d2]

Anyway the read line sounds like Australian or Kiwi accent.

What makes you think that? I'm pretty sure that "read" (as a past tense) sounds exactly like "red" in any variant of English.

 

[GoesStation]

Red in a Kiwi accent can sound like "reed" to my AmE ears.

 

[GoesStation]

How to make possessive with "somebody else".

How would you phrase that question correctly?

 

[Aamir Tariq]

What makes you think that? I'm pretty sure that "read" (as a past tense) sounds exactly like "red" in any variant of English.

Well, I am not pretty sure about the Kiwis but Australians speak with a very interesting accent, they prolong some words with vowels, like they would say fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish to fish, cheeeeeeeeeeeeese to cheese. I really like the way they speak and sometimes it is hard to understand them because of their accent but still they have varieties of accents, and some of them speak like the British people.

I feel comfortable with British and American accents, however, I don't feel comfortable with cockney cockney is a little hard to understand. But the Queens English the English spoken by the Royal family sounds perfectly fine. I know even in Britain there are variety of accents and local dialects. But when I say British English, I refer to the English I hear through the media like the one spoken by news anchors on BBC, Sky TV etc. And yes we also get to hear the cricket commentary by the former British cricketers who speak with varieties of British accents and even they sound different from each other, although they all belong to the UK.

 

[Aamir Tariq]

How would you phrase that question correctly?

How should I make possessive questions containing the phrase "somebody else"?

 

[Aamir Tariq]

You must have met some very strange Australians.

I met one a long ago when I was at college he was a tourist. And I don't remember how he spoke. I am talking about those on television.

 

[Barb_D]

Can we keep Australian and New Zealand pronunciation out of this thread, please?

That car belonged to somebody else.
That was somebody else's car.

Can we close the discussion on the original question?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Can we keep Australian and New Zealand pronunciation out of this thread, please?

That car belonged to somebody else.
That was somebody else's car.

Can we close the discussion on the original question?

Roit, mite!

 

[Aamir Tariq]

Can we keep Australian and New Zealand pronunciation out of this thread, please?

That car belonged to somebody else.
That was somebody else's car.

Can we close the discussion on the original question?

To be honest, it is always fun to learn about all the varieties of English. Just as we eat food to fill our stomach, in the same way I love to discover new things related to all the varieties of this language to feed my soul. I can stay hungry without food but I can't stay without learning new things about this language, I truly love American and Australian accents.