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my passport first page or my passport's first page #1 (permalink) Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:55 am   my passport first page or my passport's first page
 

I have seen someone wrote 'my passport's first page'. I thought it's wrong. As far as I know you can't put 's for inanimate object excpet for time.
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my passport first page or my passport's first page #2 (permalink) Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:40 am   my passport first page or my passport's first page
 

That "rule" seems to be common among English learners but utterly unknown to native speakers, who assign the possessive-s to inanimate objects all the time.

However, having written that, I'd still be more likely to say "the first page of my passport" in many circumstances.
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my passport first page or my passport's first page #3 (permalink) Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:24 am   my passport first page or my passport's first page
 

Thanks. but it was written under the bullet point of - copy of my passport's first page. Rewritting it to copy of the first page of my passport will have to reword wording in other bullet points.
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my passport first page or my passport's first page #4 (permalink) Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:36 am   my passport first page or my passport's first page
 

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I don't see why that should change the parallelism of the bulleting- they are both possessive noun phrases.
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