clausal possessives

[Mai Kuha]

A friend of mine, when expected to play an ice-breaker game at a
gathering, protested: "In this game, you have to put your hand on the
person in front of you's head. I don't want to put my hand on the person
in front of me's head!"

-Mai

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> One of my former students, n ow a profesisonal journalist with a major TRexas
> newspaper, writes:
>
> <<this is my newest article. i'm just waiting for the people i wrote about's
> family members to come kill me>>
>
> Isn't English a wonderful language!
>

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Mai Kuha                  mkuha at bsuvc.bsu.edu
Department of English     (765) 285-8410
Ball State University