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Possessive case   /pəzˈɛsɪv keɪs/   Listen
Possessive case

noun
1.
The case expressing ownership.  Synonyms: genitive, genitive case, possessive.





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... inflections, or on the distinctions of the genders. Only under Edward III. and Richard II. were the main principles established upon which English grammar rests. As happened also for the vocabulary, in certain exceptional cases the French and the Saxon uses have been both preserved. The possessive case, for instance, can be expressed either by means of a proposition, in French fashion: "The works of Shakespeare," or by means of the ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
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Words linked to "Possessive case" :   oblique case, genitive, attributive genitive, possessive, oblique, attributive genitive case


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