Words similar to possessive

Example sentences for: possessive

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And if students are slipping structural cogs, we need a common language to communicate these problems: “John, you should use the possessive form before the gerund”, “Mary, try combining these two sentences by using an appositive.”
By 1988 the editors of Dorland's 28th edition had deleted three eponymous entries for hyperthyroidism, retaining Graves but now as Graves disease , the second s and its possessive apostrophe banished.
According to Kermode, Smith employs a "laborious accumulation of detail" to back up her diagnosis that the late princess "was unpredictable, egocentric, aggressive, insecure, manipulative, paranoid, possessive, easily bored, uneducated and a habitual liar."
Take the idiosyncrasy in the use of personal pronouns, that of the lack of, or reluctance to use, accusative and dative cases or even the possessive.
The first of these is the possessive, the second represents the vowel of is . (The Joyce title is typical of the author's linguistically inventive but allusive style, and is actually a compound of two proper names: that of Finn MaCool, the Irish folk-hero, and Tim Finnegan, the hero of a music-hall ballad, who sprang to life in the middle of his own wake.)