[Grammar] You are America's future

[Flogger]

Hello.

I remember somewhere I read about not using apostrophe s for inanimate things. In my view, however, the sentence written in the subject of this topic is grammatical. Isn't it?

Should I write " you are America's future" or " you are America future" ?

Regards.

 

[teechar]

Should I write "you are America's future"

Yes, use that one.

or "you are America future?"

No, that's incorrect.

 

[jutfrank]

I don't think you can describe America as an "inanimate thing"!

 

[GoesStation]

It's fine to express an inanimate thing's metaphorical possession of something, as I've done in this sentence, with apostrophe-s.

 

[Skrej]

Although I agree that there is no need to avoid using it, you could replace 'America's future' with 'the future of America' if you did want to avoid it.

 

[Tdol]

I don't think you can describe America as an "inanimate thing"!

It is a territory with a lot people in it, far more animate than a table top.

 

[GoesStation]

It is a territory with a lot people in it, far more animate than a table top.

Yet a table top's right to an apostrophe-s​ is the same as America's.