• A possessive or ktetic form (abbreviated POS or POSS; from Latin: possessivus; Ancient Greek: κτητικός, romanized: ktētikós) is a word or grammatical construction...
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  • In linguistics, a possessive affix (from Latin: affixum possessivum) is an affix (usually suffix or prefix) attached to a noun to indicate its possessor...
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  • more letters, e.g. the contraction of "do not" to "don't" The marking of possessive case of nouns (as in "the eagle's feathers", "in one month's time", "the...
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  • Possessive determiners are determiners which express possession. Some traditional grammars of English refer to them as possessive adjectives, though they...
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    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...
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  • grammatical possessives Possessive case, a grammatical case used in possessive constructions in some languages Possessive determiner (or possessive adjective)...
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    the modifying noun) in the construct state. Possessive grammatical constructions, including the possessive case, may be regarded as subsets of the genitive...
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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...
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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"...
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  • "Crazy Possessive", also known as "Crazy Possessive (I'll Muck You Up)" or "Crazy Possessive (I'll Fuck You Up)", is the first single off Kaci Battaglia's...
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