"Possessive case" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is added to a pronoun of the First and Second person, it is preceded by the Possessive case. But when it is added to a pronoun of the Third person, it is preceded by a pronoun in the ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
... use of a suffix, used when the pronoun is emphatic, is noteworthy. The possessive case also is formed as in some other Papuan languages by a suffix added to the root of the ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson
... certain conditions, into whose and whom; but that and which always remain the same, with the exception of the possessive case, ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... 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
... 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 ancient genitive: ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand |
