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  2. Possession (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Possession may be marked in many ways, such as simple juxtaposition of nouns, possessive case, possessed case, construct state (as in Arabic and Nêlêmwa), [3] or adpositions (possessive suffixes, possessive adjectives). For example, English uses a possessive clitic, 's; a preposition, of; and adjectives, my, your, his, her, etc.

  3. English possessive - Wikipedia

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    The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...

  4. Possessive - Wikipedia

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    The personal pronouns of many languages correspond to both a set of possessive determiners and a set of possessive pronouns.For example, the English personal pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we and they correspond to the possessive determiners my, your, his, her, its, our and their and also to the (substantive) possessive pronouns mine, yours, his, hers, its (rare), ours and theirs.

  5. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. [1] In various languages, nominal groups consisting of a noun and its modifiers belong to one of a few such categories.

  6. Possessive determiner - Wikipedia

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    In Modern Spanish, however, not all possessive determiners change to reflect the gender of the possessee, as is the case for mi, tu, and su, e.g. mi hijo y mi hija ("my son and my daughter"). In the first and second person plural forms-- nuestra/nuestro and vuestra/vuestro —possessive determiners do mark gender inflection in the singular, e.g ...

  7. Talk:English possessive - Wikipedia

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    Questions concerning the application of the possessive apostrophe logically follow the formation and marking of the possessive case in spoken English. That's my view, anyway: but it is not widely accepted. I wish the fact could be solidly recognised at Apostrophe, but I doubt that it ever will be. For all practical purposes, we should assume ...

  8. Genitive construction - Wikipedia

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    In this case the reflexive form of the possessive pronoun is used to refer to the immediate possessor (Hilde) and not necessarily the subject of the sentence as otherwise would be the case. A variant of this construction appears in the Hungarian language, which has suffixes instead of Germanic languages' possessive pronouns.

  9. Category:Grammar - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Grammar can be used to mean the study of the rules governing the use ... This page was last edited on 23 ...