Possessives

• assistant: Edward worked as a draper's assistant until he enlisted into the army in the early summer of 1915.

• shop: Every time she goes past the draper's shop in London Street, Edith stops in front of the window.

• apprentice: He worked as a draper's apprentice, bookkeeper, tutor, and journalist until 1895, when he became a full-time writer.

• store: Instead, Mr Perkins the lodger gets Louis a position as a salesman in a draper's store.

• business: He owned a draper's business at 20 Queen Square, Wolverhampton, which had possibly been his father's firm.

Converse of object

• travel: A short time afterward a traveling draper knocked at the door.

• open: McGregor had moved to Birmingham to seek his fortune and opened a linen draper 's shop near Villa Park.

• run: The shop on the right was a drapers run by Harry Castle.

• become: George Hudson who was born in 1800 and who became a draper in York.

• own: He owned a draper 's business at 20 Queen Square, Wolverhampton, which had possibly been his father's firm.

Adjective modifier

• woolen: In 1608 the youngest son of wealthy woolen draper left Manchester to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

• local: Morris was the only surviving son of a local draper.

• wealthy: In 1608 the youngest son of wealthy woolen draper left Manchester to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

• woolen: A woolen draper by trade, he had been involved with Whitefield's ministry in London since at least the 1760s.

• fancy: She eventually left, to join Edith in running a small fancy drapers and general store in the front room of their house.

• Dutch: Living cells were first seen in 1674 by Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch draper.

Modifies a noun

• shop: Six years later he went to work in a drapers shop in Whitechapel owned by another Quaker.

Noun used with modifier

• linen: He was the son of a linen draper of the town of Bristol, where he was born in 1744.

• apprentice: He was an apprentice draper, teacher and biology student before he became a professional journalist and writer.

• credit: There were three credit drapers, no less than three professors of music, and a pianoforte dealer.