basic question
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If I wanted to say "when compared with the account of X", where X denotes a person, do I include the ' 's ', so as to convey the account 'belongs' to X? Or may I just leave it as their name?
i.e., is it:
"According to the account of Michael"
or
"According to the account of Michael's"?
The specific sentence I am working with is:
"From this, we may extract crucial information regarding Bacon's outlook on language, which appears highly similar to that of Hobbes'. "
Is this correct?--noticing that I included the apostrophe but omitted the repetitive s at the end.
It's "According to the account of Michael"
I'll show you another example in dialogue:
"According to the account Michael"
"Who's account?"
"According to Michael's"
>>7232237
ah thank you. So in my sentence, I should omit the apostrophe?
>>7232237
*Whose
>>7232194
The 's is unnecessary due to the of. It's 'that of Hobbes'
>>7232327
wow, post no. is the same forwards as backwards
u win
non native english speaker here does "woken up from my delusional state that I am handsome" make sense or do I have to say "woken up from my delusional state of believing I am handsome" thanks!
>>7232336
the latter would be correct. And in fact, you'd be better off to say "woken up from THE delusional state of believing I am handsome", because the 'my' signifies possession, whereas someone else may be just as deluded
>>7232347
thank you :)
>>7232367
np m8
