 POSSESSIVES AND COMPUND CLUSTERS IN LEGAL

1. I’m sure this bag belongs to somebody.

2. Let’s go to the shop the girls own.
3. That is the hotel belonging to Mr. Hollis.
4. I love the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
5. It’s the fault of nobody.
6. They had respect for the opinions of each other.
7. The dog belonging to my next-door neighbour never stops barking.
8. I’m fed up with the hopeless inefficiency of the secretary of my boss.
9. The personality of my mother and the personality of my father are very alike.
10. These aren’t my keys, they are the keys belonging to my flatmate.
11. The new Act of Parliament will protect the right of everyone to privacy.
12. The toilet for men is over there on the right.
13. I’ve just inherited the house belonging to the brother of my grandmother.
14. The opinions of residents of sink estates are rarely taken into consideration.
15. The dance routines of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are legendary.

Q 2.

Eight of these sentences contain mistakes. Tick (✓) the correct sentences, then find and correct the mistakes.

1. Elizabeth is a good friend of him.

2. I’m really fed up with my landlord’s wive’s endless complaints about noise.
3. As the English say, ones’ home is ones’ castle.
4. You should pay attention to what he says; he’s a close associate of the managing director.
5. Don’t blame him; it was my own fault.
6. She’s been put in charge of children’s’ activities at the summer camp in Maine.
7. Since they got married they’ve only been interested in each other.
8. My brother-in-law’s parents have decided to emigrate.
9. We don’t know him very well; he’s just an acquaintance of us from our university days.
10. There’s something wrong with that buses’ brake lights.