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.
Notes
Practical English Grammar - Notes
7. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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12. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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17. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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30. the infinitive and infinitive phrase
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33. compound subject and compound predicate
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36. the participle and participial phrase
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40. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents
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41. More subject verb agreement situations
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48. subject complements predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives
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