"In future" is chiefly British usage. In the US we almost universally say "in the future" in cases when Brits would say "in future".

I think Tristan has a point about using "who" to refer to the couple. I humbly recommend, "There is a couple which is leaning on the wall of the building".

Yet another minor quibble:
Avrom... "The examples given earlier, especially 'the dog's leash', prove this: The dog does not posess the leash (presumably its master/mistress does)." and "'The leash that belongs to the dog we found in the rain' doesn't sound quite right to me, because 'belongs to' *does* suggest ownership."

Nitpicking, if you ask me, which I know you didn't. Possession and a relationship of ownership in an English sentence is the relationship between the words, not necessarily what the words represent.

For example: "Chris's girlfriend is bi-polar" If I tell her I own her, I think she's gonna get a little bit grumpy with me. Still, if I sell her, how much do you think I'll get?

You know how no one likes to feel stupid? That's why people who usually type two spaces after the period like to argue that it makes things more readable and blah blah blah... They're just embarassed that they've been doing something so stupid for so long that they're willing to argue a rediculous point of readability. T y p i n g l i k e t h i s d o e s n ' t p r o v e a p o i n t .

In your example without the "that", a "that" is understood. You are building a complex sentence with an adverbial clause, and "that" acts as the conjunction. Note the two separate clauses, each with a subject and predicate:

"I thought" + that + "the day was warm"

When you eliminate the "that" from the sentence, there is no conjunction, but the two clauses remain. As a result, the conjunction is understood, much like "you" is understood to be the subject of imperative sentences ("Go get the ball." => "You go get the ball.").

ok my lil brother came up with this one...

[00:55] : duh, yes, "Did you know that that that that that that is preceding, is the second that that in that that that sentence?"

If you don't want to avoid got, then you don't got to.

Froogle is a store owned by google.

the rest was covered

use away friend....this is becoming more of a mainstream way of typing and possibly slipping into writing as well...i think it is a matter of convience, laziness, and ease upon the typer to use the ellipsis instead of proper puncuation.

I find the rule is actually less than one of rigorous grammar, but rather one of phonology.

Namely, would you speak the possesive "-ez" or "-es" suffix when spoken? if so, then tack on 's. If not, just use ' by itself.

The Joneses are coming to dinner. The Joneses' minivan holds six. They're bringing Grandma Jones's carrot cake.

Eels as a band is a proper name
The Eels' second album was lousy.

btw: plural of eel can be eel or eels so it's not a clear example since the reader may hear it differently.