Re: CHAT: which's
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 27, 2003, 5:22 |
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David Barrow wrote:
>
> My watch's broken
> Rich's standing over there
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> Which doesn't make which's any more grammatical
Does your dialect really permit those constructions? I'd say "My watch
is broken", "Rich is standing over there". "Is" cannot contract to -'s
after "ch", "j", "s" or "z", essentially the same environment that
requires -es as the plural instead of -s.
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