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possessive adjective
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possessive adjective
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A pronominal adjective expressing possession.
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It occurs as the third person oblique sg feminine pronoun 'her' (54), the possessive determiner 'her' (55), the possessive determiner 'their' (56), the adverb 'here' (57), the preposition 'before' (58), and the verb 'hear' (59).
Orthography in the Cely letters by Rutkowska, Hanna / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
With four exceptions (a friend of the director's, a friend of the duke's, a friend of the young lady's, any friend of the little lady's), the post-genitives of the type "human non-proper" all contain a possessive determiner plus a noun denoting a family relationship: a friend of my mother's, a good friend of your granddad's, a friend of her late husband's, etc.
A friend of my mother('s): on the use of genitive vs. common case in ... by Oksefjell, Signe / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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