"I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."

[Dan Goncharoff]

I've used this construction all my life. I think of it as a
possessive: "The hard drive of which..."

DanG

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "such that its" > "that's"?
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