[HC] Re: appartenance

Le 14/12/2022 à 10:01, Stefan Ram a écrit :

Phil Dici <philou.delarbre@gmail.com> writes:

j'entends dire: I'm at my friend's.
j'ai compris qu'autrefois on disait I'm at my friends home,

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  J'ai trouvé quelque chose sur le Web :
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|Spoken English:
|
|When we talk about places which are familiar to the speaker
|and the listener, we sometimes don’t use the noun after
|possessive ’s:
|
|the hairdresser’s salon – the hairdresser’s
|
|the doctor’s surgery – the doctor’s
|
|We had to take our cat to the vet’s twice last month. (the
|same as: We had to take our cat to the vet’s clinic twice last
|month.)
|
|Do you shop in Marks and Spencer’s?
|
|We decided to go to John’s after the cinema. (the same as: We
|decided to go to John’s house after the cinema.)

Ne pas confondre avec : « We decided to go to the jones after the cinema.


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