Okay. I have this argument with my friend for a long time now. Basically i just want to know if I use the word "mines" in a sentence.. would it still be correct grammar? For example, "I like your myspace, what do you think of mines?" Does it sound funny or like weird? I'm not asking for comments and crap. I just want to know if there is such thing as "MINES" in correct English Grammar crap.
don't tell me about "mine's".
i know there is such thing as that. i know it's a contraction-- mine is.
duh. okay. thanks in advance.
2007-11-30 14:17:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
really? i've heard of the contraction mine's.
because...
-My report is done. Mine is pretty.
-My report is done. Mine's pretty.
i don't know okay. thanks again though.
2007-11-30 14:32:17 · update #1
duhh. i already knew about the "golden mines".
everyone does. don't bring it up. you knew whatt i was talkinggg about.
2007-11-30 15:32:03 · update #2
When you say mine's. It sounds like you are talking about going underground for coal or something. Mine is correct.
2007-11-30 18:24:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mines, unless referring to more than one underground system for extracting minerals and ores, is not correct grammar in English. It sounds "weird", to use your own word, to anyone over the age of 30, and though you may consider it a contraction of "mine is", there is actually no such word, nor contraction in the English language.
2007-11-30 14:29:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mine as in That's mine. A possessive mines, a noun, would be the plural for either a land mine which will blow you up or the plural for mines which are dug out for coal and ores. Lazy speakers will use mines when trying to say mine.
2016-05-27 01:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the sentence about MySpace given above, "Mines" would be incorrect. It would be "What do you think of MINE?"
Only use "mines" when saying thing like, "the coal mines of West Virginia," as an example.
2007-11-30 15:25:19 · answer #4 · answered by Sharon Newman (YR) Must Die 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The car is MINE. (proper English)
MINES is substandard English and people who use that form are ignorant and uneducated, or trying to be "cute" or "ghetto" or are hopelessly stuck in "teenspeak".
If a speaker wants to be taken seriously they will speak proper "broadcast", un accented American English. If in the UK, they will work hard to develop a BBC "acquired" English accent.
No matter what the cause of the use of that form, will not advance in the world of business and commerce.
2007-11-30 14:23:42 · answer #5 · answered by WhatAmI? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can talk about coal mines or land mines; but when used as a possessive pronoun, mine is mine whether you own one thing or a thousand.
2007-11-30 14:26:49 · answer #6 · answered by picador 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No there isn't.
The confusion arises, because every other possesive (his, hers, theirs, yours, its,) ends in -s.
'Mine' is different, but don't ask me why.
2007-11-30 14:28:29 · answer #7 · answered by AndrewG 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋