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The Genitive case is now known as the Possessive case and its indicators are either the word OF or the apostrophe ess ('s) added to a word or any such substantive.
EzineArticles 2010
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"Possessive" has a specific meaning in grammar that has nothing to do with consciousness, philosophy, or rhetoric.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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"Possessive" has a specific meaning in grammar that has nothing to do with consciousness, philosophy, or rhetoric.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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He wrote the more famous Von Bessenheit durch Fremde und Ungehere Geister (âOn the Matter of Hostile and Possessive Spiritsâ) in 1797, though it did not see print for nearly ten years.
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Possessive McKell had let someone he considered his go, rather than fight and cause hatred.
Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010
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Possessive McKell had let someone he considered his go, rather than fight and cause hatred.
Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010
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Tonight (1/25/07) Anne Carson (translator of Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides) will be at the Housing Works Bookstore reading her work “Possessive Used As Drink (Me): a lecture on pronouns in the form of fifteen sonnets” accompanied by a dance performance choreographed and performed by members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
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Genitive (Possessive): (singular) thy, thine, (plural) your.
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Genitive (Possessive): (singular) thy, thine, (plural) your.
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For those playing at home, Balhorn found three factors that affect use of epicene ‘they’ in the CT: distance from the antecedent, antecedent sex, and notionally plural predication. re: distance: Possessive and reflexive pronouns were highly likely to appear within the antecedent clause domain, and these were, as predicted, highly likely to agree with their antecedent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence 2009
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