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noun and noun possessive - dee

Posted: May 27, 2014

This is a patient of Dr. Smith who comes in today for followup.

This is a patient of Dr. Smith's who comes in today for followup.

??? also, can you document the reason for which answer you choose?

First is correct - anon

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My source is my own understanding, and I don't have a site that shows up on google. I learned this when diagramming sentences back in grade school.
The object is a noun, the patient. The possessive modifies the object, Dr. Smith.
Two ways to express it:
This is a patient of Dr. Smith, or
This is Dr. Smith's patient.

Not This is a patient of Dr. Smith's.

noun and noun possessive - dee

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Thank you... a lot of things are natural to us if we had strong grammatical training in our younger years. I felt that was correct but was lazy and needed someone else to explain why.

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