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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004Attributives and Possessives!
Hi, for the case that there is only one user, which supports only one bit rate the attributive and possessive should be ( I hope that I am correct:)). a. the user bit rate (attributive) b. the user’s bit rate (possessive) How should I write the attributives and possessives for the following cases? I. There is only one user, which supports many bit rates. II. There are many users and each user supports only one bit rate (but different from the bit rates of all other users). III. There are many users and each user supports many bit rates. Thanks in advance! Driton P.S: Your suggestions in my last question have been very useful! >Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >P.S: Your suggestions in my last question have been very useful! The idea that a 'user supports a bit rate' sounds wrong. A user connection could do that. Still, A and B sound alright. I There is only one user connection, which supports selectable bit rates (how many can there be?). II This one doesn't make sense- why would each user have a unique bit rate? III There are many users, and the user bit rate is independently selectable for each. Or you could just say "The bit rate is selectable per user". -- john Thanks John for your answer! >>Hi, >> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > The idea that a 'user supports a bit rate' sounds wrong. A user > connection could do that. Still, A and B sound alright. You have right, but I have thought the link/connection on which the user is connected. > I There is only one user connection, which supports selectable bit > rates (how many can there be?). Any number of bit rates, but always more than two bit rates. Are the follwing correct for this case? Ia. the user bit rates (attributive) Ib. the user's bit rates (possessive) > II This one doesn't make sense- why would each user have a unique bit > rate? Why not? Suppose the case where there are two users connected in the internet and one of them is downloading a big program and the second one is reading the news. To have the best usage of the link to one of them we assign for instance 5 Mbps (Mega-bit per second) and to another one 0.5 Mbps. > III There are many users, and the user bit rate is independently > selectable for each. > Or you could just say "The bit rate is selectable per user". > -- > john Thanks again, Driton >Thanks John for your answer! > [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >we assign for instance 5 Mbps (Mega-bit per second) and to another >one 0.5 Mbps. What you wrote in II would mean that no two users could share the same bit rate, not just that it could be tailored to each user, or to each user's current needs. To say that the bit rate could be set appropriately for each user would be conveyed by the following... >> III There are many users, and the user bit rate is independently >> selectable for each. >> Or you could just say "The bit rate is selectable per user". -- john |
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