On May 8, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
> "ours" is the word you're looking for. A genitive 1st person plural
> adjective.
Furthermore, it's the *independent* form of the 1st person plural
genitive pronoun.
When functioning as a dependent adjective, it's just "our".
Compare
1) the problem is theirs not ours
vs
2) it is their problem not our problem
James
(who happened to do his undergrad linguistics degree where Russell did
his undergrad physics/maths)
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Received on Mon May 12 2008 - 01:17:41 PDT