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hakani60
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HELP!
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Please help me with the following statements! This gift is for a FRIEND of US! or This gift is for a FRIEND of OURS! for a FRIEND of OURS sounds correct to me but I came across for a FRIEND of US in a course book. Are both possible? I �m really confused! Can you please explain it by giving reasons? Thanks in advance!
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19 Nov 2015
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Gi2gi
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A friend of ours is the only correct form for me too. Textbooks do have slip-ups.
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19 Nov 2015
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MoodyMoody
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Native speaker of American English: definitely friend of ours. I suppose friend of us is grammatically correct, but it just sounds wrong. |
19 Nov 2015
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cunliffe
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Agree with the others. Friend of ours. |
19 Nov 2015
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halim98
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friend of ours sounds gramatically correct. |
19 Nov 2015
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mellika
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I`m an English teacher and as far as I know "a friend of us" is the correct answer. |
20 Nov 2015
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FrauSue
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It must be "a friend of ours". ("A friend of us" is never correct, I �m afraid.) These friends are ours. This friend is one of them. He is a friend of ours. C.f. a friend of mine, a friend of his, a friend of yours etc. Source: English Grammar Today, Cambridge University Press. We use a possessive pronoun, not the object form of the pronoun: A neighbour of mine called late last night.Not: A neighbour of me … |
21 Nov 2015
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