That is, they cannot be used in isolation but must occur either as part of a compound word or with a possessive prefix. |
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Another common mistake is to confuse it's and its, the former being a contraction of it is and the latter a possessive pronoun. |
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Dale felt a sudden flare of protectiveness, possessive anger, and a father's pride. |
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The men looked away hurriedly when they looked upon the Princess's beauty, and possessive wives quickly drew their husband's attention. |
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The mania type of love can be characterized as obsessive in that it is possessive and dependent. |
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He still had a mysterious air about him and I was afraid of the possessive beast that lurked just below the surface. |
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Being unevolved, they are of the lower nature, instinctive, self-assertive, confused, possessive and protective of their immediate environment. |
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Adjectives that refer to people are sometimes introduced by the definite article the or by a possessive pronoun. |
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We all know that in English you form the possessive by adding an apostrophe. |
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How do you do a possessive of a registered trademark that is itself already a possessive? |
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It's a relational noun, which means that a possessive shows who the noun relates to. |
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He's very loving, but also possessive, and like all psittacines, he has a wicked bite. |
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Compared to possessive case, the objective case is much more limited in these dialects. |
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Mr Dallas said Edmunds was possessive and jealous of Miss Lawrance and took the view that if he could not have her then no one else would. |
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They can be used as components of compounds, but if they are used on their own they must be used with possessive prefixes. |
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We began by having a heated discussion on the use of apostrophes and whether the contractive use and the possessive use can be combined. |
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He was overly possessive, and he freaked if I mentioned another guy's name. |
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And that's typically what happens where a mother may be very, very possessive of that child. |
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Instead of being demanding and possessive like before, he was a whole new different man. |
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I think that men's love is very possessive and involves ownership, competition, and performance. |
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You are a very possessive and demanding person, rarely impulsive or casual. |
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Now, in some relationships certain parties are very possessive of their partner. |
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Others unintentionally sabotage their relationships by exhibiting overly possessive, clinging, dependent behaviour. |
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His great love remained his mother Louie, a dominating, possessive woman who spoiled and adored her son above everything else. |
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She had lot of people who claimed her attention but later on a particular man became more possessive of her and she stopped entertaining others. |
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There were a lot of books that were in the children's names that were burnt, and children are very possessive of their things. |
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If we were not greedy, possessive creatures why would we need a means to measure our worth? |
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Retrograde Scorpio Venus tends to showcase the acquisitive, possessive, less lovely traits of the Tauran shadow. |
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A tall punk with flaming red hair had his arm slung tightly around her waist in a possessive manner. |
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He followed her, settling his weight on top of her in a most possessive way and not allowing her any room to escape from his relentless pursuit. |
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But the evidence shows that possessive apostrophes have been dropping like flies for years. |
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For what it's worth, the offending sign uses an apostrophe to suggest the possessive of a singular noun instead of the plural intention. |
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The concept of the possessive apostrophe appears to have evaded his fine mind. |
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He had never professed love, just a lustful possessive desire that fueled the cruelty in his obsession. |
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Although she may claim that her possessive behaviour arises from her love, there might be a need for her to realize that love must be sustained by trust. |
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Relations that are implicit in the semantic structure of a possessed noun can affect the range of plausible interpretations of a possessive construction. |
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People get possessive, and people are not as romantic as they used to be. |
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Other poems present maternal love as liberating, not possessive. |
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Its trademarks should never be used in the possessive or plural form, but should be introduced as a proper adjective followed by an appropriate descriptor. |
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Actually, today, the possessive and genitive are virtually the same. |
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An eagle is possessive and once it has caught a fox it will not let go. |
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Oh look, I can understand him feeling very possessive about his budget, he's been working on it a long time, but I think he needs to calm down a bit. |
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Does that mean she's already taken by an overly possessive Johnny? |
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A jilted and possessive ex-lover who was jealous because Le was about to be married to another man? |
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In a tolerant, mature, self-confident country it was not necessary to put your hand on your heart to say you loved it, or even to refer to it with possessive adjectives. |
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Since masseuses are also extremely possessive over their regular and trustworthy customers, ugly turf wars are not entirely uncommon. |
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Adjectives had both strong and weak sets of endings, the weak ones being used when a definite or possessive determiner was also present. |
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For the possessive of the third person pronoun, the word its, first recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1598, is avoided. |
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The medieval language also possessed two additional tenses for expressing past events and an extended set of possessive suffixes. |
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The objective form of ye was you, its possessive forms are your and yours, and its reflexive or emphatic forms are yourself and yourselves. |
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It is also often used in place of the indefinite article and instead of a possessive pronoun. |
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Although usually avoided in common speech, this form can be used instead of possessive pronouns to avoid confusion. |
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They are extremely possessive of their food and will defend their catches from even dominant animals. |
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These morphemes cannot appear alone but must occur after a noun or a possessive prefix. |
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The status of the possessive as an affix or a clitic is the subject of debate. |
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The possessive determiners such as my are used as determiners together with nouns, as in my old man, some of his friends. |
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Further, these pronouns and a few others have distinct possessive forms, such as his and whose. |
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The weak forms are used in the presence of a definite or possessive determiner, while the strong ones are used in other situations. |
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It also frequently affects verbs, and sometimes nouns or possessive relationships. |
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The genitive case is then usually called the possessive form, rather than a noun case per se. |
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Some of the Hokkien singular pronouns play the roles of possessive determiners with their nasalized forms. |
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The Semitic genitive should not be confused with the pronominal possessive suffixes that exist in all the Semitic languages. |
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The genitive case is also used in sentences expressing negation, even when no possessive relationship is involved. |
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The ending of the subject noun changes just as it does in possessive sentences. |
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Bermudian convention, where a toponym contains the name of a person, is to render the person's name in the possessive form. |
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The of and the apostrophe make for a double possessive, which is idiomatically proper. |
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The definite article in refers to all of those, while the possessive determiner in refers to only some instances of that reference mass. |
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Most lawyers overuse past participial phrases when a simple prepositional phrase, single adjective, or possessive noun would do fine. |
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Because of the potentially large number of plural and possessive names, this type of pair isogram has been excluded. |
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In summary, there are differences between the dialects regarding the unmarked position of the possessive, the use of enclitics and the use of the definite article. |
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In these dialects, possessive constructions with kinship terms are also unique, since the possessive is enclitic to the noun and the definite article does not appear. |
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The reader is continually distracted by a tangle of tenses and the personification of inanimate objects with inappropriate use of the possessive case. |
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The reason is that possessive adjectives are system morphemes. |
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However, the personal pronouns do have distinct possessive forms. |
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During filming, star Lana Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery. |
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While the possessive pronoun alone may be used, especially in more formal registers, as shown above, it is considered incorrect to use only the personal pronoun. |
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For example, the Bezhta system includes the possessive localization, which is regularly combined with the essive, lative and elative orientation values. |
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