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Short form of "HAS GOT"?
Hello, everyone! :)

I'll be very happy if you help me. My question is about a short form of the phrase "has got". So are the sentences below correct or I'm mistaken and we can't say / write "nobody in this office's":

1) Nobody in this office has usually got their own computers. 
2) Nobody in this office’s usually got their own computers.

Thank you all for your answers! :)

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We can certainly *pronounce* it with the contraction (vowel reduced to schwa, dropped H), but we wouldn’t normally *write* that contraction. In American English, we generally only write contractions after pronouns and some words like “where” and “there”. In UK English, they actually write the contracted forms after proper and common nouns (except in formal writing), but at the end of a multiword noun phrase? No. 

Similar rules apply to the genitive apostrophe + "s". We can use it at the end of a multiword phrase in spoken English, but it would be better to use a prepositional phrase with "of" in writing.
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U.S. English:

No one / nobody in this office has his* own computer.

People in this office don't usually have their own computers.

*In spoken English, it is very common to hear "they," even though it is not correct.

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