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Post by Dave on Dec 30, 2010 10:27:00 GMT
Welcome, looseball! I don't see your question specifically addressed in the only style guide that I have ( The Associated Press Styleguide), but what you've written certainly seems like what we'd say in speech, although we may really be using appositive phrases with commas instead of parentheses (brackets): I borrowed Fred's, my brother's, football. I saw Bob's, my golf partner's, car arrive. These could also be spoken or written as I borrowed my brother Fred's football I saw my golf partner Bob's car arrive. without the appositives but still including the clarifying explanatory information. In perhaps a written form only, you could use the parentheses as such: I borrowed Fred's football (Fred is my brother). I saw Bob's car arrive (Bob is one of my golf partners). Note that I removed "one of" from your first set of examples because Bob is one of your golf(ing) partners [plural] and then it should become golf partners' for the possessive which doesn't make sense overall--even though we might say it that way! P.S. The plural of apostrophe is apostrophes.
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