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I'm trying to determine the correct construction for POSSESSIVE NOUN + POSSESSIVE PRONOUN + NOUN. The example I just received was from a student who was using a joint email account with her father and now has her own: "I had sent you my father and my email address." ". . . my father's and my . . ." seems equally awkward, but one internet source said that's correct. It seems that the same problem occurs with any similar construction - possessive noun + possessive pronoun + modified noun. I feel pretty ignorant here - can somebody help me out?
Geoff Layton
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