146 gender of nouns

Some speakers prefer to use a different form of the word or an entirely differentword in orderto avoid a gender-marked noun.

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Showing possession through nouns
Possession can be shown in two wavs:

thechairman thechairperson

thechair
The man was mending his car. The car wos being mended by a man.

lf necessary, the gender of a common noun can be made clear by adding a descriptive term such aswoman or male/femole'
Would you prefer to see a womon doctor? Male stoff should use locker room B'

byadding

-'s

to a singularnoun, oran irregularplural noun that

does not end in -s.

one dog one boy several children

thedog'sbones

theboy'sbooks

the children'stovs

byadding -'toa plural noun.

morethan one dog
the dogs' bones

morethan one boy thebovs'books

There is also the of possessive (a phrase with offollowed lry a noun).

the side ofthe ship the end ofthe queue

The of possessive is not just a different way of saying the same thing as the -'s possessive.
the boy's pencil

but not the pencil ofthe boy

The -s possessive is generally used only with nouns referring to animate items (e.9. people and animals) and in time phrases.
the

driver'sfoot

the dog's nose

a week's

todav's newspaper

holiday