The real objection to the possessive here is merely the addition to the crowd of sibilants.
In the event of the passage being found, he will esteem it a favour... (if the passage is found)
Conceive my vexation at being told by Papa this morning that he had not the least objection to Edward and me marrying whenever we pleased.—S. Ferrier. (our)
Or, if the names are essential, did not in the least mind how soon Edward and I married.
It has been replied to the absurd taunt about the French inventing nothing, that at least Descartes invented German philosophy.—Morley. (Frenchmen's)
d. A modern construction called the compound possessive was mentioned at the end of the section on Cases. It is sometimes ugly, sometimes inoffensive; that is a matter of degree and of knowing where to draw the line; there is no objection to it in principle. And the application of it will sometimes help out a gerund. The first quotation gives a compound possessive simply; the second, a gerund construction to which it ought to be applicable; the third and fourth, two to which it can be applied; and the last, one to which it cannot.
A protestation, read at Edinburgh, was followed, on Archibald Johnston of Warriston's suggestion, by...—J. R. Green.
The retirement of Judge Stonor was made the subject of special reference yesterday on the occasion of Sir W. I.. Selfe, his successor, taking his seat in Marylebone County Court.—Times.
The mere fact of such a premier being endured shows...—Bagehot.
There is no possibility of the dissolution of the legislative union becoming a vital question.—Spectator.
If some means could be devised for...insisting upon many English guardians of the poor making themselves more acquainted...—Times.
The only objection to a possessive mark after successor is that the two commas cannot be dispensed with; we must say when...took for on the occasion of...taking. Such a premier's will certainly pass. In the Spectator sentence, we should ourselves allow union's; opinions will differ. But to put the 's after poor in the last sentence would be ridiculous; that sentence must be rewritten—insisting that many English
