WRITING WELL

Ways to Make Compound Possession Less Confounding

And help ensure you’re using possessive compounds correctly in your writing

Karen DeGroot Carter

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The Writing Cooperative

4 min readSep 24, 2023

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I’m from a big family, and that means lots of birthdays, weddings, and anniversaries. On one recent Saturday, two family members shared a birthday and another got married. When writing about anything that’s…

WRITING WELL

Ways to Make Compound Possession Less Confounding

And help ensure you’re using possessive compounds correctly in your writing

Written by Karen DeGroot Carter