'Joint' (or 'compound') Possessives
Which Word Takes The Apostrophe? A Compound Possessive is also called a Joint Possessive. This grammar point often causes confusion, so we’ll try to make it as simple as possible.…
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Which Word Takes The Apostrophe? A Compound Possessive is also called a Joint Possessive. This grammar point often causes confusion, so we’ll try to make it as simple as possible.…
When You Get the 'Dangerously Bad' and Rarely the 'Possibly Good' Linking Ideas As translators, we've all faced the frustration and befuddlement of running into a cluster of words whose…
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Você Privilegia Nosso Riquíssimo Vernáculo? Em inglês, o verbo transitivo "to borrow" é definido como "to take something with the promise to return it", quer dizer, 'pegar uma coisa com…
Entendendo a diferença entre 'EM VEZ DE' e 'AO INVÉS DE'. O mais importante e crucial nesse caso é saber QUANDO NÃO USAR a locução 'ao invés de'. Por…