Thursday, October 24, 2013

possessives - How do I express the possession of multiple objects by one proper noun and one pronoun?

As far as I can tell, my question is not a duplicate of either of these two similar questions. It is very close (maybe a duplicate, but I don't quite think so) of this question.



I want to construct a sentence, where there are two things each possessed by one of two people, one of whom is myself. The best I have come up with is something like:





Fred's and my houses are both green.




Two houses, two people (Fred and myself). I'm not sure how to phrase it at all!



I suppose I could go with a longer form like:




Fred's house is green and my house is also green.





But it would be nice if there was a shorter form.

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