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mother's-in-law picture/mother-in-law's picture

问

Since I loved her very much when she was alive, I prize my mother's-in-law picture and I wouldn't sell it for all the money in the world.

这道题简直把我弄糊涂了。请分析。

答

我们在plural条中已经指出,复合名词的第一个成分为中心词时,构成复数形式的方法,是把第一个成分变为复数,例如:mother-in-law ⟶\longrightarrow mothers-in-law stander-by ⟶\longrightarrow standers-by passer-by ⟶\longrightarrow passers-by但是,它们构成属格的方法,却不是在第一个中心词上加's,而是在合成词的末尾加's。例如:stander-by ⟶\longrightarrow stander-by's passer-by ⟶\longrightarrow passer-by's mother-in-law ⟶\longrightarrow mother-in-law's somebody else ⟶\longrightarrow somebody else's(book)(参见grown-ups/mothers-in-law)

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