Phrasal Possessives, Grammar Girl #887

Have you ever wondered about the possessives in weird sentences such as "The guy I carpool with's car has a flat tire"?

They're called "phrasal possessives" and you can learn more about them (and how and when to avoid them!) in this week's Grammar Girl podcast.

Listen to the whole podcast now (phrasal verbs are part of the 2nd segment).

AI-generated summary: This YouTube video explains the concept of phrasal possessives, which are possessive words that are attached to other words in a phrase. The video points out that "mine" is already possessive, so adding an apostrophe s to make it possessive doesn't make sense. However, something else is actually going on in this sentence fragment, and it's called a phrasal possessive.

[sajjadhusain]

Grammar Girl is just pure gold! I love these short videos. Her podcasts are brilliant. There are too few of these videos, though.

[GloriaJWimberley]

Teacher of English here...sincerely appreciate this video✨😊✨