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You own the local grocery store?


Well, it was one of those situations where I thought, "Hmm, should I put a footnote [1] in this to make myself perfectly clear? Then I thought, why skew my parallel grammatical structure, howsoever already imperfect?"

[1] I don't actually own the grocery store. The word "my" changed from "that which I possess" to "that thing whose utility I am habituated".




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