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functions than
merely forming possessives),
while in
languages like English, such
words are
usually called possessives rather than genitives. A given...
- Poor's
already include possessive apostrophes. For
similar cases involving geographical names, see below. Similarly, the
possessives of all
phrases whose...
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irregular possessives that do not use an apostrophe, such as its, and most of them have
different forms for
possessive determiners and
possessive pronouns...
- used when the noun ends in a
consonant Independent possessives are
formed by
attaching the
possessive suffixes to /wi-/ (if the
object possessed is masculine)...
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English grammar, a
pronoun has a
possessive antecedent if its
antecedent (the noun that it
refers to)
appears in the
possessive case; for example, in the following...
-
grammatical possessives Possessive case, a
grammatical case used in
possessive constructions in some
languages Possessive determiner (or
possessive adjective)...
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language has
different ways of
expressing the
possessive relation.
There are
several "verbal
possessive"
forms based on
verbs with the
sense of "to possess"...
- somebody's. For more
details of the
formation and use of
possessives in English, see
English possessive. For more
details about the use of
determiners generally...
- case
Possessive adjective Possessive case
Possessive pronoun Possessive suffix Peters, Stanley;
Westerst ̊ahl, Dag. "The
Semantics of
Possessives" (PDF)...
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stronger emphasis on the
possessor than the
possessive pronouns do the use of the
adverbial possessives is rare
Examples of use: ko hono valá: it is...
