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What the heck is going on with the grammar of the title? A possessive apostrophe followed by “is”?

• nells 4y ago
  It’s called Saxon genitive.
  • PetitSasquatch 4y ago
    I'm still not getting this application of it, is there a word-wizard willing to condescend us some further explanation? Pretty please ...
    • qubex 4y ago
      It’s not a Saxon genitive, it’s a grammar mistake.
      • nells 4y ago
        The “possessive apostrophe” is the Saxon genitive. I was replying to that part but I admit that it was confusing. I should have quoted the part I was replying to
  • qubex 4y ago
    Yeah, but apostrophe-s followed by ‘is’ is just wrong.
    • mytailorisrich 4y ago
      In the title of the article it's a spelling mistake but it is not "just wrong" in general. "China's is more advanced than Russia's" is a valid sentence, for instance, we just lack context to know what it is comparing.
• sn41 4y ago
  too poor to afford editors, I suppose.