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How do you show double possession?
The double possessive, usually using both of and ‘s to demonstrate possession, is grammatical. While it is sometimes unnecessary, it can be helpful for differentiating when the possessive (or genitive) case is about association or ownership, such as in “a picture of my friend” vs. “a picture of my friend’s.”
How do you use two possessives?
If two people possess the same item, put the apostrophe + s after the second name only. Example: Cesar and Maribel’s home is constructed of redwood. However, if one of the joint owners is written as a pronoun, use the possessive form for both.
Do you say my family and I?
“I” is nominative. “Me” is accusative. Although “me and my family” is not incorrect, there is a convention of good manners that one should put the other person or people before oneself in a sentence.
Is it correct to say “someone and I” or “ someone and Me”?
You can say both, depending on how you use it in a sentence. “Someone and I” went to a movie. – In this case, “Someone and I” is the subject in the sentence. The audience cheered for “someone and me” in the dance competition. – In this case “someone and me” is the object of the verb cheered (for). 8 clever moves when you have $1,000 in the bank.
Do you use ‘is’ or ‘me and someone are’?
If it was “Someone or I …” then you would use “is”, because only one person is interested, either “someone” or “I”. It is not uncommon to hear people say “Me and someone are …”, but this is wrong because it’s the wrong case.
How do you use the word ‘I and someone’ in English?
You could say, “We, that is, Bob and I, are interested …”. All that said, “I and someone” or “Someone and I” sounds strange to me, and I suspect most English speakers, because it is an unusual use of the word “someone”. When “someone” is used in a list with identifiers of other people, we usually say “someone else”.
How do you use ‘I’ and ‘Me’ in the same sentence?
If you used ‘me’ in a sentence where ‘someone or other’ is absent, then continue to use ‘me’ even if that ‘someone (or others)’ is present. Corollarily, if you used ‘I’ in a sentence where ‘someone or other’ is absent, then continue to use ‘I’ even if that ‘someone (or others)’ is present,