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English possessive

In English, possessive words or phrases exist for nouns and most pronouns, as well as some noun phrases. These can play the roles of determiners (also called possessive adjectives when corresponding to a pronoun) or of nouns.

History, Formation of possessive construction & Syntactic functions of possessive words or phrases

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Formation of possessive construction

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Syntactic functions of possessive words or phrases

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Formation of possessive construction

Syntactic functions of possessive words or phrases

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Status of the possessive as a grammatical case

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English possessive

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related to Status of the possessive as a grammatical case · 7
English possessive → England's, English, For, German, Historically, However, To
related to Syntactic functions of possessive words or phrases · 4
English possessive → English, John's, Possessive, Terminology

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possessive genitive english noun nouns form pronouns apostrophe phrase used ending possessives also determiners 's pronoun forms subject whose case

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
That's the only friend of yours that I've ever metinstance ofThere is no substitute for it in a sentence0.80text
since sentences such as That's your only friend that I've ever metinstance ofThere is no substitute for it in a sentence0.80text
That's your only friendinstance ofThere is no substitute for it in a sentence0.80text
whom I've ever met are not grammaticalinstance ofThere is no substitute for it in a sentence0.80text
Germaninstance ofit differs from the noun inflection of languages0.80text
in that in phrases like the king of England's horse the ending is separated from the head nouninstance ofit differs from the noun inflection of languages0.80text
English possessiverelated to Status of the possessive as a grammatical caseHistorically0.60section
English possessiverelated to Status of the possessive as a grammatical caseEnglish0.60section
English possessiverelated to Status of the possessive as a grammatical caseHowever0.60section
English possessiverelated to Status of the possessive as a grammatical caseGerman0.60section
English possessiverelated to Status of the possessive as a grammatical caseEngland's0.60section
English possessiverelated to Status of the possessive as a grammatical caseTo0.60section

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    Nodes96
    Edges95
    Triples17
    Avg. degree1.98
    Density0.020833
    Components1
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