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Breeder's Cup Tickets For Sale

Postby madelyn » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:59 am

One of my husband's co-workers has four BC tickets for FRIDAY, NOV 5th for sale. They are for the Clubhouse, 3rd floor, Box seats, just past the finish line, Section 313 Row J, seats 37-40; she needs to get $745 for all four. Tickets exactly like these sell for $388 each at cheappricedtickets.com (row H which is the row just in front of Row J).

If you are interested, please call Mary @ 502 718-6893
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Postby dublino » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:11 am

One of my husband's co-workers

How many husbands do you have?

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Postby madelyn » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:14 am

Actually I've had three, not concurrent. But in the usage in this sentence, husband is singular, modified into a possessive by the addition of "'s" and the noun in play is "coworkers". Rather like "one of your sister's friends" which implies that you have one sister, vs. "one of your sisters' friends" implying many sisters. Of course, English is not my mother tongue, so if this usage is incorrect, it is my misunderstanding :oops:
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Postby pfrsue » Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:02 pm

Madelyn, your sentence was absolutely correct.

Dublino, you should know the rules of the road before you start tailgating anyone else. If she'd written, "One of my husbands' co-workers..." it would have implied polygamy, but she didn't do that. It's all about the placement of the apostrophe. "Husband's" is singular possessive, which made it the correct choice.

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Postby hpkingjr » Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:15 pm

Give the Pope and the King of England a horse and in thirty days, they'll be stealing halters.

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Postby dublino » Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:07 am

pfrsue wrote:Madelyn, your sentence was absolutely correct.

Dublino, you should know the rules of the road before you start tailgating anyone else. If she'd written, "One of my husbands' co-workers..." it would have implied polygamy, but she didn't do that. It's all about the placement of the apostrophe. "Husband's" is singular possessive, which made it the correct choice.


A co-worker of my husband, implies one husband and more than one worker

One of my husbands, implies more than one husband

I don't expect you to understand English as from your post the word tailgating was used I expect you speak American on a daily basis.

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Postby pfrsue » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:33 am

dublino wrote:
One of my husbands, implies more than one husband


You forgot the apostrophe again. "One of my husband's," implies only one husband. I'm not going to get involved in an irrelevant cultural debate with you.

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Postby madelyn » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:30 am

Tickets still available..
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Postby Georgerz » Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:18 am

And Dublino is still wrong.

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Postby springboro » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:16 am

I called the nice lady... but I only need two of the tickets. Anyone else only need 2 too?

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Postby hpkingjr » Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:48 am

We have 1 ticket in 117 under cover, face $140.00. PM me if needed
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Postby Tappiano » Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:28 am

Maybe she could have said my current husband has multiple co-workers and one of them has extra tickets. Then it would have let Dublino know that you had more than one, that the current one had a job, that he did not work alone and that he had been planning on going to the breeders cup :D

Oh wait, that's Facebook that's the voyeuristic site not this one :lol:

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Postby springboro » Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:48 am

my mother and I got two tickets, so we will be there! CAN NOT WAIT!!!

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Postby madelyn » Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:37 pm

THANKS Springboro - Mary has two left..
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Postby walaa » Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:54 pm

Well, I was going to go, but since neither one of my yearlings sold, and are back home, I'm farmbound again :lol: maybe next year Ill get a break, once I pick a training place, well the Tv works great, and I dont have to drive home, but those tix would have been nice!