“Hazel and I’s puppy”? When Fiction Meets Bad Grammar

 

 

Today at Fiction+ (The Chicago Manual of Style’s Shop Talk blog), I write about the trending compound possessive pronoun “I’s,” as in

“Hazel and I’s Puppy. The. Cutest. Ever.”

(Go to post at Fiction+)

 

 

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Photo: Old English Sheepdog by Meredith Bannan, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.