Subj : the Possessive case
To   : Mike Powell
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Thu Mar 01 2018 17:20:52

Hi, Mike Powell!
I read your message from  01.03.2018 03:17
about the Possessive case.

 ak>> Look: "former Trump campaign official" and "Donald Trump's
 ak>> presidency". Why the former is without the Possessive case? It
 ak>> probably should be "The decision by former Trump's campaign
 ak>> official Rick Gates to plead guilty...."

 MP> Actually, if you change it from "former Trump campaign official"
 MP> to "Trump's former campaign official," the possessive is correct. I
 MP> am not certain what the rule is there, but that is how we were
 MP> taught.

 MP> That said, there may be some other rule that makes "former Trump
 MP> campaign official" incorrect English, too. :) But I have never seen
 MP> a possessive used when a sentence is phrased in that manner.

Having thought it over I think that maybe "Tramp" has been used differently:

1. in "the decision by former Trump campaign official Rick Gates to plead 
guilty"  Tramp doesn't actually possess of this campaign - "Tramp" is just an 
adjective to "campaign". "Campaign" is an inanimate object, and therefore used 
without the Possessive case.

Another example maybe could look like this: "A well-known Putin glorification 
journalist has written a big article about the upcoming elections".

2. in "it could mark the end of Donald Trump's presidency". Here Tramp 
possesses his presidency, and we use "Tramp" as a name, a noun, an animated 
object. So we should use the Possessive case.

Bye, Mike!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2018

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