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I ´s???



claudineraciti
Italy

I ´s???
 
An American friend asked me te following question. Can you use the possessive ´s with the personal subject pronoun I? For example:
 
My mom and I ´s cat.
 
My reaction first was, no you can ´t! It just sounds so weird. But exactly I ´m not so sure anymore. Would you say, my mom and my cat? Is that the same?
 
Anyone any explanations? I ´m a bit confused....

1 Apr 2011      





ozlem.yagiz
Turkey

That ´s very interesting. I haven ´t thought that before. I am also curious about how it should be but if i needed to use something like that, I would probably prefer to say "the cat of my mum and I/me".

1 Apr 2011     



douglas
United States

My first rsponse was to say NO!
 
However, in common use we do say "my father and I ´s hunting trip."  I am pretty sure this is not "proper" English though (we probably shouldn ´t be mixing nouns and pronouns in this case). 
 
Anyone else have a rule for this??

1 Apr 2011     



eng789
Israel

My mom ´s and my cat.   ??????

1 Apr 2011     



maryse pey�
France

I would say our cat, my mother ´s and mine.

1 Apr 2011     



libertybelle
United States

You can not say I ´s cat.  My or mine is the possessive form.
You wouldn ´t say she and she ´s mother ´s cat either - you would use her.

1 Apr 2011     



yanogator
United States

eng789 has it exactly right.
 
Bruce

1 Apr 2011     



Redbull
Thailand

eng789 is correct with the words

YOU CAN ´T USE I ´S.........

REDBULL GIVES YOU WINGS YOU KNOWWink

1 Apr 2011     



kinho
Brazil

what would idthemagician say?? I´m curious also!!

1 Apr 2011     



Zora
Canada

Eng789 is correct. You ´d not say "she ´s cat" when you mean "her cat". So that is the same principle here. "I" is a personal subject pronoun like "she, we, they, he" and its possesive form is "my" - or in the case of he-his, they-their, we-our, she-her.
 
 
 

1 Apr 2011     



ldthemagicman
United Kingdom

Dear Claudineraciti,

 

You ask the question: 鏠an you use the possessive ´s with the personal subject pronoun I?�

For example:

岞y mom and I ´s cat�.

The answer is NO.

𨧻𠏋 cat� is as bad as saying 㛝ou𠏋 cat� 鐈e𠏋 cat� 廍he𠏋 cat� 㜁e𠏋 cat� 孏hey𠏋 cat�.

 

When I teach possession, using 𩾷he apostrophe�, I teach that the apostrophe represents the word 㺸f�.

 

岞aria𠏋 house� = 孏he house of Maria�.

孏he dog𠏋 name is Rex� = 孏he name of the dog is Rex�.

岞y mother𠏋 hat is blue� = 孏he hat of my mother is blue�.

鎽ohn𠏋 bicycle is fast� = 孏he bicycle of John is fast�.

孏he man𠏋 car is expensive� = 孏he car of the man is expensive�.

孏he men𠏋 car is expensive� = 孏he car of the men is expensive�.

孏he student𠏋 College is modern� = The College of the student is modern�.

孏he students� College is modern� = The College of the students is modern�.

 

岞y mom and I𠏋 cat� = 岞y mom𠏋 cat and I𠏋 cat� = 孏he cat of my mom and the cat of I� = ungrammatical.

 

If I were asked: 㜁hat would you say?� it would depend on the context of the conversation.

 

㜁hose is this cat?�  𨧻t𠏋 ours!  It belongs to my mother and me�.

𨧻s this your cat?�  㛝es, it𠏋 ours, my mother𠏋 and mine�.

㜁hat is this black thing in the corner?�  𨧻t𠏋 my mother𠏋 and my cat�.

 

It would be possible to give a variety of suitable answers, but

岞y mom and I ´s cat�

is NOT grammatically acceptable.

 

Les

1 Apr 2011     

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