The Bisaya pronouns are divided into personal, demonstrative, possessive and relative.
With the particle isigca before the root, are formed correlative nouns, placing the possessive pronoun in genitive case, as: My like.
Here the assertion is, not that the army belongs to Saxony, but that it belongs to the king of Saxony; which words must, for the sake of taking a true view of the construction, be dealt with as a single word in the possessive case.
Thus, although the plural of substantives like axis and genius are Latin, the possessive cases are English.
They did not begin with meaning two things at once; on the contrary, they were either possessive cases, of which the power became subsequently adjectival, or adjectives, of which the power became subsequently possessive.
The reflective personal form, the equivalent to se, is lost, whilst the reflective possessive form, the equivalent to suus, is found.
The following observation must be made on the possessive nouns of the Abipones.
As they have no possessive pronouns, mine, thine, his, the want of them is supplied in every noun, by the addition or alteration of various letters.
When they were on the sidewalk, in the cool of the luminous night, she drew closer to Dangerfield and slipped her hand under his arm, a little possessive gesture she seldom used.
On that instant, he divined what was ahead and with it came a certain possessive joy of discovery, that he, De Gollyer, would have it within his power to announce a new phenomenon to an interested world.
Was it the little possessive pronoun that sent the sudden thrill through the unexpecting wrist?
That wonderful little possessivepronoun MY has a great, thrilling power.
When the noun or pronoun to which the participle relates is a passive subject, it should not have the possessive form; as, "The daily instances of men's dying around us remind us of the brevity of human life.
Some authorities justify the omission of the possessive s when the next word begins with s, as in Archimedes' screw, Achilles' sword.
When several possessives connected by and refer to the same noun, the sign of the possessive is applied to the last one only.
In the latter case we are obliged to place the apostrophe after the s in order to distinguish the possessive plural from the possessive singular.
Omit the possessive The possessive case should not be prefixed to a participle that is not taken in all respects as a noun.
He was politely informed that both were incorrect; that the two words form their plurals differently, and that the possessive case is, therefore, formed in a different manner.
A majority of the best writers still conform to the old custom of placing the possessive with else.
There are no signs of either the possessive case or the plural number.
In English substantives there is a sign for the possessive case, and for none other.
Pronouns are inflected for number and person, and comprise the nominative, possessive and objective cases, a few examples in each of which will be given.
He was an intensely possessive man and once, when he was newly married, there had been a suspicion in his mind that there was something between his wife and a young man who had worked on the farm where he then lived.
As in the days of his courtship of her mother and before the possessive passion in him destroyed his ability to love, he began to feel vaguely that life about him was full of significance.
Use one of them in the possessive case or use an of phrase, whichever seems better.
A noun or pronoun is in the possessive case before a verbal noun; as, I prefer to have John's studying done before dinner.
When, as in the name of a firm, two or more nouns are taken together with the idea of common possession, the sign of the possessive is added to the last noun only.
Exercise 84= Each of the following sentences is incorrect because the sign of the possessive case has been omitted.
Although nouns are used in all three cases, no change of form occurs except in the possessive case.
If separate possession is implied, the sign of the possessive is added to each noun; as, Have you seen Wilson & King's new building?
To show the possessive case of nouns (See Exercise 82); as, The boy's writing is excellent.
Omit initial A or The from titles when you place the possessive before them.
As the authors of The King's English point out, there are sentences apparently, but not really, of this type, in which the possessive is not called for.
But in any sentence in which it is a mere clumsy substitute for something simpler, or in which the use of the possessive is awkward or impossible, should of course be recast.
Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.
Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's 7 2.
His smoldering eyes had the possessive insolence she resented and yet found so stimulating.
She could not very well frame it in words, and before his bold, possessive eyes the girl's long, dark lashes wavered to the cheeks into which the hot blood was beating.
To most of her world she was in spirit still more boy than woman, but before his bold, possessive gaze her long lashes wavered to the cheeks into which the warm blood was beating.
As a pronoun another may have a possessive another's, pl.
In course of time the ignorant people changed the word Pudentiana, a possessive adjective, into the name of a saint; and the name Sancta Pudentiana usurped the place of the genuine one.
The preposition #in# is sometimes used when the attribute is a genitive or a possessive pronoun, and commonly when it is any adjective but a possessive pronoun.
The dative is often added to the entire sentence, where either a genitive or a possessive pronoun limiting a substantive might be used.
A possessive pronoun or adjective is sometimes used for the objective genitive: as, (a.
The possessivegenitive of a person or of an abstract is particularly common when the subject of the verb is an infinitive or sentence: as, (a.
Under the steady look of his bold, possessive eyes the long silken lashes fell to the soft cheeks.
His eyes were an index of the man, bold and possessive and unwavering.
To a man with a better developed possessive sense, it might have occurred that he was poaching in another's preserves.
This insertion of the definite article between a possessive pronoun and an adjective is frequent.
In a possessive followed by the word sake or the word side, dislike to [of] the double sibilant makes us sometimes drop the inflection.
Dominicus, the possessive of Dominus, "Belonging to the Lord.
Some words ending in a sibilant omit the s of the possessiveto avoid the disagreeable repetition of a hissing sound.
An incorrect form, yours being a possessive pronoun does not need the sign of the possessive after it.
A very unnecessary difficulty appears to be felt, even by educated men, in the use of the apostrophe in the possessive case.
Occasionally, the possessive appears in double form, the substantive being preceded by of and followed by the apostrophe with s.
The apostrophe is not used with thepossessive personal pronouns.
The possessive pronoun can properly be used only to indicate possession or appurtenance.
However this may be, it seems undeniable that there is an actual and considerable difference in the use of the possessive to-day and its use ten years ago, at least in formal titles and headings.
For once, as he walked through it, Aldous Raeburn spared the old house an affectionatepossessive thought.
Altogether Marcella was proud of her work, and her eager interest in this little knot of people whose lives she had shaped was more possessive than ever.
