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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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Notes


Practical English Grammar - Notes
1. Italics Hyphens and Brackets
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2. Quotation Marks Part Three
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3. compound subjects part two
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4. the adverb
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5. Using Capital Letters
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6. the adjective clause
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7. the indirect object
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8. the pronoun
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9. The Apostrophe
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10. the appositive
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11. the correlative conjunction
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12. The possessive case
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13. what good writers do
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14. Sound a like words Part Four
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15. The Colon
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16. the adjective
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17. the noun clause
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18. The verb be
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19. the direct object
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20. The Semicolon
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21. complete and simple subjects
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22. Confusing usage words part six
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23. the subordinating conjunction
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24. Confusing usage words part three
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25. the verb
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26. irregular verbs part two
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27. Commas Part Five
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28. More Apostrophe Situations
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29. Quotation Marks Part Two
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30. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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31. complex sentences
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32. The possessive case and pronouns
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33. Commas Part Four
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34. the prepositional phrase
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35. Confusing usage words part one
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36. Commas Part One
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37. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents
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38. the preposition
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39. complete and simple predicates
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40. compound subject and compound predicate
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41. the infinitive and infinitive phrase
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42. Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case
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43. Sound a like words Part Three
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44. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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45. Commas Part Three
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46. Parentheses Ellipsis Marks and Dashes
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47. types of sentences by purpose
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48. compound complex sentences
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49. Misplaced and dangling modifiers
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50. Sound a like words Part Two
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