By Evan Jenkins
His best glove work,” the sports story said, “is equal to that of Ozzie Smith’s.” Nah. We don’t need two possessives. “That of” is a possessive, and so is “Smith’s.” Make it “equal to that of Ozzie Smith” or “equal to Ozzie Smith’s.” See also Oddities (“A friend of mine”).
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