Sentence examples for possessive case from inspiring English sources
noun
Case used to express direct possession, ownership, origin, etc. Though similar in many ways to the genitive case, it is not always the same. Languages that have the possessive case include English and Quenya.
Use of the possessive case does not demand construction of the quoted phrase to mean only income actually possessed by, rather than available or attributable to, the community spouse; to the contrary, use of the possessive is often indeterminate.
In Modern English these are reduced to two cases in nouns, a general case that does duty for the vocative, nominative, dative, and accusative ("Henry, did Bill give John the letter?") and a possessive case continuing the old genitive ("Bill's letter").
For example, it is plausible to think that a central function of the definite determiner is to mark for some form of possessive case marking.
It would not be fruitful to suggest that definite determiners always play the role of supplying genitive case or some form of possessive case across all languages having such determiners, nor even across all uses of definite determiners in English.
Is possessive case it's or its?" I'd ask.
"Form the possessive case by adding an 's or by using the preposition 'of.' Just don't get carried away and do both at the same time". Rod wasn't as quick to jump to conclusions.
I have had to hone my explanation about other pronoun options such as "ze" or "xe," the need to coin the objective and possessive cases, the often-slow drift of linguistic change, and the reality that many people already used "they" in place of "he or she" for a singular person of unknown gender.
The genitive case marks possessive nouns and some types of movement.
A striking feature of Slavic syntax is the widespread use of possessive adjectives (e.g., Russian Bož'ja milost'divinene mercy') instead of the genitive case of the noun (milost' Boga 'the mercy of God').
He consulted with pediatric oncologists at the hospital, but still, he seemed to be possessive of my case.
These include the four primary cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, and instrumental; three adverbial cases: allative (of which the dative is a shortened form), locative (also with a shortened form), and ablative; and a possessive or adjectival case.
