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David_Gerard

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

Of course, for "every Monday", the last one should have been dated July 22-28. *cough*

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

Of course, for "every Monday", the last one should have been dated July 22-28. *cough*

Thanks. This sounds plausible (if irrelevant), but I could not find an authoritative reference confirming it. Any links?

A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, p. 90:

The determiner position in an NP [noun phrase] is usually filled by one of two kinds of expression.

In all the examples so far it has been a determinative [a word like the, a, this, some, or three], and some of these can be accompanied by their own modifiers, making a determinative phrase, abbreviated DP.

In addition, the determiner may have the form of a genitive NP.

Examples, with the determiners underlined [bolded], are given [below]:
DETERMINATIVE
*the city
**some* rotten eggs
DP
*almost all pol

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4komponisto13y

(My comment was generated by the spontaneous reaction and reflection of a native speaker rather than memory of any deliberately learned rule.) Wikipedia has this to say: [...] One should indeed think of " 's " in this context as the equivalent for nouns of what "my" is for the pronoun "I".

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