10. A race horse 11. A horse race 12. The end of the film 13. The owner of this restaurant 14. My friend’s address 15. The number for emergency services / The emergency services number 16. The end of the week (» Friday) 17. The cause of the problem 18. The top of the hill / The hilltop 19. The bodyguard 20. Our friends’ house (NB -s followed by apostrophe) 21. The publishing house 22. One of Carol’s ideas Many of the translations are either fixed (New Year’s Day, Christmas Eve, Northern Ireland, etc.) or conventional (Case Study, Parkinson’s disease). |
23. A case study24. A garden flower
25. A flower garden 26. Our neighbours’ garden 27. A six metre* hole (*US meter) 28. (Puss in Boots’) Seven League Boots 29. A shoe shop 30. My colleague’s children 31. The Name of the Rose (by Umberto Ecco) 32. The name of the woman who lives next door (“The woman etc.’s name” is stylistically clumsy) 33. A test of strength 34. The English teacher 35. English Grammar (the grammar of English) 36. The North of France 37. (The Republic of) South Africa 38. Northern Ireland 39. Parkinson’s disease 40. a) rue de Paradis b) Paradise Street ANSWER When Y is a person or people the version is systematically apostrophe ‘s’ (or, if there is already an ‘s’ ending, ‘s’ apostrophe). |
X of Y