@tibbleinparadise,
tibbleinparadise wrote:Things can't have possessions.
Strongly disagree. Check any number of grammar sources. In conversation or informal language we can dispense with possessives for things e.g. rooms in houses - e.g. the bathroom window, the bedroom door, the kitchen floor etc. The car engine. However it is not wrong to use the possessive, just more formal. The ship's bottom. The car's price. The road's width. Sometimes it is even better.
I know that many writers consider it bad form to use apostrophe -s possessives with pieces of furniture and buildings or inanimate objects in general. Instead of "the desk's edge" (according to many authorities), we should write "the edge of the desk" and instead of "the hotel's windows" we should write "the windows of the hotel." In fact, we would probably avoid the possessive altogether and use the noun as an attributive: "the hotel windows." This rule (if, in fact, it is one) is no longer universally endorsed. We would not say "the radio of that car" instead of "that car's radio" (or the "car radio") and we would not write "the desire of my heart" instead of "my heart's desire." Writing "the edge of the ski" would probably be an improvement over "the ski's edge," however.
For expressions of time and measurement, the possessive is shown with an apostrophe -s: "one dollar's worth," "two dollars' worth," "a hard day's night," "two years' experience," "an evening's entertainment," and "two weeks' notice" (the title of the Hollywood movie nothwithstanding).