This is kind of hard to explain, but I'll try my best to make it clear.
When you are showing a possessive then using a phrase that you must put in the sentence to describe the person who is doing the possessing, where does the 's go?
Here, I'll put up the phrase I'm having trouble with from my WIP so it makes more sense:
the man he had talked to on the phone's kind
That phrase is part of a larger sentence, but the rest of it makes sense to me; I was just having trouble with that part of it.
See, its not the phone who is possessing the kind (meaning the type, if that helps any), but the man. If I put an 's after man, though, then it wouldn't make sense:
the man's he had talked to on the phone kind
So, is it correct the first way, the way I have it? It doesn't seem grammatically correct, but it sounds right.
Thanks for any help anybody can give me! I hope I explained this right!
When you are showing a possessive then using a phrase that you must put in the sentence to describe the person who is doing the possessing, where does the 's go?
Here, I'll put up the phrase I'm having trouble with from my WIP so it makes more sense:
the man he had talked to on the phone's kind
That phrase is part of a larger sentence, but the rest of it makes sense to me; I was just having trouble with that part of it.
See, its not the phone who is possessing the kind (meaning the type, if that helps any), but the man. If I put an 's after man, though, then it wouldn't make sense:
the man's he had talked to on the phone kind
So, is it correct the first way, the way I have it? It doesn't seem grammatically correct, but it sounds right.
Thanks for any help anybody can give me! I hope I explained this right!