Possessed, Part II: Doubly Possessive

Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast

Genitives, gerunds, postpositive adjectives—oh, my! There's still a lot to say about the tangled mess of possessive forms, so let's get back to it. You won't want to miss Producer Amanda's first on-air appearance (to dish on the royals, natch) or Mike's unforgivable misreading of a fine point in the Chicago Manual of Style. Plus: Meat Loaf, Lorde, Three Doors Down, and Three Days [sic] Grace.

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Thing 1: Ryan Davis

Thing 2: Mike Laws

Producer: Amanda Darrach
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अध्यायों

1. Possessed, Part II: Doubly Possessive (00:00:00)

2. To mean "of" for units of time or value (00:00:47)

3. Gerunds (00:10:50)

4. The double possessive (00:18:21)

5. Compound possessives (hyphenated terms) (00:22:05)

6. Nouns with postpositive adjectives (00:28:22)

7. Track changes: Complementary angles (00:35:20)

8. Track changes: Narthex (00:37:27)

9. Track changes: In Living Color (00:38:45)