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 Teacher Khalid
 
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							| dear friends sometimes we add to the noun possessive  s , but sometime we don �t
 I know that there is something called pre-modifier.
 
 1- teacher�s book.
 2- love bounds.
 
 so my friends could you please comment on this?
 
 
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 donapeter
 
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							| I don �t really understand what you need here: the pre modifiers of the noun? A premodifier is a word that is placed before the word it modifies. It can be an article, an adjective etc. Regards
 
 
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 serene
 
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							| Hi Khalid!   Do you mean "love bonds"? This is a compound noun (noun + noun combination). Perhaps you �ll find something useful here:   Regards serene     |  15 Sep 2009     
					
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 Pam_D
 
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							| Hi,   It depends on what you are trying to convey. The 1st example refers to ownership and the 2nd one to the type of bound or limit described. In sentence n�2 the word LOVE -which is a noun- is acting as an adjective, describing the type of bound (NOT ownership).  Look at this:  Mary �s love (ownership, also Mary �s dog, Mary �s car, etc.) and  love song (the type of song, also romantic song, folk song, etc.)    Regards |  15 Sep 2009     
					
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