Possession rules

 Good evening, guys!! Here is one of the most confusing rules of possessive.  Add your examples in the comments below.

1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.

Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,

Charles's friend

Burns's poems

the witch's malice

This is the usage of the United States Government Printing Office and the Oxford University Press.

Exceptions are the possessive of ancient proper names in -es and -is, the possessive Jesus', and such forms as for conscience' sake, for righteousness' sake. But such forms as Achilles' heel, Moses' laws, Isis' temple are commonly replaced by

the heel of Achilles

the laws of Moses

the temple of Isis

The pronominal possessives hers, its, theirs, yours, and oneself have no apostrophe.

                                                               from "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk

Articles in English (Your Reflections)

 Hello guys,

I'd like to share some opinions on articles and looking forward to receiving your opinion on the same topic.

So, ARTICLES

... article usage in English is complex and, in many instances, arbitrary. There are several different uses for each article, articles are often omitted, and there are dialectal differences in the use of articles.

                                                                                        (Brinton & Brinton, 2010, p.123)

... the English article system ... appears to be virtually impermeable to instruction.

                                                                                        (Gass & Selinker, 2008, p. 383)

What is your opinion about article system in English?

Phrasal verbs

bring back - bring into - bring out - bring up

1. A week by the sea brought her ______ health.
2. He was brought _____ by his grandmother.
3. The work brought me _____ a contact with a lot of interesting people.
4. Jenny opened a cupboard and brought _____ a couple of bottles.

Vocabulary Check

aggregate - baffle -equity - pinch - torment

1. Private _____ activity can include buying distressed companies, and providing management services to maximize the chances of turnaround.
2. Apparently, bank managers are not feeling the _____ in the same way as their employees.
3. Children are far less likely to suffer from the ______ of toothache.
4. In the 1950s and 1960s, when communities across North America debated whether to put fluoride in their supply dentists, university researchers and other experts were ______ as to why people would vote against a measure that so clearly had a beneficial impact on children's teeth.
5. The success of mutual funds in _______ investment dollars from retail investors and charging a fee for providing professional investment management: services has directly spawned the ETF industry.

Vocabulary Check

blur - delusion - equity -rampion - taint  

1. If that's true then I will let you have as many _____ as you want on one condition.
2. Experience may be the best teacher, but biased experience supports bias, distorted experience supports distortion, self - deluded experience supports self- _____.
3. For example, if someone from the US is discussing "communism", because of their social conditioning and the view the communism is inherently bad, or even evil, then their description of this economic system may be ______, or biased by this conditioning.
4. Private Equity refers to _____ that is not listed on any stock exchange.
5. Over the last decade, the distinction between hedge funds and these "alternative" investment vehicles has ______.

SAT Vocabulary

adroit - skillful
decorum - dignified behaviour
largess - generosity
obsolete - no longer valid
adulation - worship

Vocabulary Check

distort - distortion - flaw - rampion - suspension - unattainable

1. My wife saw your ______ from the window and she wanted it so bad, that I could not say no to her.
2. Robert challenged Evensson on the validity of his conclusions claiming that his data were _____ and were too limited to be reliable.
3. In a _____ bridge, there are two towers with one or more flexible cable firmly attached at each end.
4. Experience may be the best teacher, but biased experience supports bias, ______ experience supports distortion, self- deluded experience supports self-delusion.
5. Absolute zero, the temperature at which all substances have zero thermal energy, and thus lowest possible temperatures, is ________ in practice.
6. Without this command, we confuse these important discriminations and _____ the important realities they help us distinguish.