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EngFan

00:24

Hello everyone

Are We Pretty Much Caught Up With Keeping Up With The Kardashians?

What does caught up with mean in this sentence ?

And what does caught up with everything mean in general?

Feeds

01:00

Q: Is there a possibility for members of the ELL site to propose exchanging email addresses?

I wrote the title and found out that my question hasn't already had the answer. So it is as it was put: "Can a member of the ELL community propose/ ask another member to share their email address to further communicate the ideas about the English language with one another privately, not in the ...

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Araucaria

08:30

A: A friend of John's / John's friend

Short answer You could say either. However, it would perhaps be more natural to say a friend of John's, as the Original Poster suggests. The reason for this is that the speaker will probably want to mark the noun phrase as indefinite. Full answer Noun phrases in English come in two parts. Fo...

@Man_From_India, @snailplane, @M.A.R. Any chance of some help with a reopen here?

Q: A friend of John's / John's friend

Reopen note: This question has been closed as duplicate of this other question: Why is it usually "friend of his", but no possessive apostrophe with "friend of Peter"? However, that question only asks about why there is a possessive 'S' in the phrase a friend of John's and compares it with a...

grammaticality noun-phrases saxon-genitive double-possessive

M.A.R.

08:52

@Araucaria I don't have 3k SE money on ELU, sorry

Araucaria

09:14

@M.A.R. Oh, why not? Get posting old bean!

user288256

09:31

@Araucaria There is also this similar question:

user288256

A: "A friend of Susan" vs. "a friend of Susan's"

A friend of Susan’s is a double genitive, which has been a feature of English grammar for centuries, and it is the normal alternative to one of Susan’s friends. Just as most people would say a friend of mine, rather than a friend of me, so a friend of Susan’s, rather than a friend of Susan, would...

CowperKettle

Word of the day: frosh

frosh

Noun: frosh (plural froshes)

(now dialectal) A frog.
1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356:
The mud hath in it certaine seed whereof greene froshes rise.
frosh (plural froshes or frosh)
(colloquial) A first year student, at certain universities.
That frosh is really getting on my nerves, just he wait till hell-week!

Verb: frosh (third-person singular simple present froshes, present participle froshing, simple past and past participle froshed)

(transitive, slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
This campus does...

CowperKettle

09:49

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Araucaria

11:24

@Ghalib That's the same as the non-duplicate though. It's not the same as that question. That questions about John's friend v a friend of John's, not a friend of John versus a friend of John's