--_Correct these errors_:--
1. This is Tennyson's, the poet's, home.
2. I took tea at Brown's, my old friend and schoolmate's.
3. This belongs to Victoria's, queen of England's, dominion.
4. This province is Victoria's, queen of England's.
5. That language is Homer's, the greatest poet of antiquity's.
6. This was Franklin's motto, the distinguished philosopher's statesman's.
7. Wolsey's, the cardinal's, career ended in disgrace.
+Direction+.---Tell which of the sentences above may be improved by using
other forms to denote possession. (See the following Caution.)
+Caution+.--The relation of possession may be expressed not only by (_'s_)
and by _of_ but by the use of such phrases as _belonging to_, _property
of_, etc. In constructing sentences be careful to secure smoothness and
clearness and variety by taking advantage of these different forms.
+Direction+.--_Improve the following sentences_:--
1. This is my wife's father's opinion.
+Correction+.--This is the opinion _of my wife's father_, or _held by my
wife's father_.
2. This is my wife's father's farm.
3. France's and England's interest differs widely.
4. Frederick the Great was the son of the daughter of George I. of England.
5. My brother's wife's sister's drawings have been much admired.
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