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Practical English Grammar


Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case


Indefinite pronouns form the possessive by adding an apostrophe and an
‘‘s’’ after the word.

    Is this someone’s backpack?
    May I ask everyone’s help here?
    Somebody’s cell phone is ringing; please answer it in the other room.
    We would like to hear another’s opinion.
    The other’s situation is much different.

If you use the word else after anybody, nobody, or somebody, place the apostrophe
and the ‘‘s’’ after else, not after anybody, nobody, or somebody.
This is somebody else’s radio, not mine.
Your business is nobody else’s concern.

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Practical English Grammar - Notes
1. Italics Hyphens and Brackets
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2. compound subjects part two
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3. Quotation Marks Part Three
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4. Sound a like words Part Four
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5. the noun
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6. Confusing usage words part six
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7. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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8. complete and simple subjects
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9. the indirect object
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10. Second Capitalization List
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11. the object of the preposition
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12. the adverb
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13. irregular verbs part two
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14. Confusing usage words part three
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15. More Apostrophe Situations
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16. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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17. Using Capital Letters
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18. the adjective phrase
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19. The possessive case
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20. the noun clause
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21. Confusing usage words part two
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22. personal pronouns
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23. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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24. Quotation Marks Part Two
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25. the prepositional phrase
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26. Confusing usage words part five
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27. The Semicolon
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28. regular verb tenses
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29. introducing phrases
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30. the infinitive and infinitive phrase
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31. the adjective clause
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32. Confusing usage words part three
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33. Confusing usage words part seven
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34. Confusing usage words part eight
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35. Sound a like words Part Two
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36. Quotation Marks Part One
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37. Parentheses Ellipsis Marks and Dashes
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38. types of sentences by purpose
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39. the adjective
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40. the adverb phrase
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41. introducing clauses
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42. Confusing usage words part four
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43. Sound alike words part one
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44. Commas Part Two
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45. Commas Part Four
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46. The Apostrophe
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47. The verb be
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48. subject verb agreement situations
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49. compound complex sentences
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50. pronouns and their antecedents
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