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41objective genitive — An example of this is the boy s murder, in which the genitive form boy s denotes not possession (as in the boy s dog, which is the usual function of a genitive) but the object of the noun murder …
42ethical genitive — noun : the use of the possessive your to impute only a vague concern (as in she is not at all one of your bluestockings) * * * ethical genitive noun A genitive implying interest (eg talking as usual about his jazz) • • • Main Entry: ↑ethic …
43substantive genitive — noun : a genitive that includes in its denotation the meaning of a qualified noun to be understood with it in “I spent the night at my brother s” brother s is a substantive genitive carrying the implication “residence” …
44group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending s is added to an entire phrase, esp. when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street s in That is the woman who lives across the street …
45adverbial genitive — noun A noun declined in the genitive case that functions as an adverb …
46partitive genitive — noun Grammar a genitive used to indicate a whole divided into or regarded in parts, expressed in English by of as in most of us …
47group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending s is added to an entire phrase, esp. when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street s in That is the woman who lives across the street …
48post-genitive — see post A. 1 b …
49double genitive — noun Date: 1824 a syntactic construction in English in which possession is marked both by the preposition of and a noun or pronoun in the possessive case (as in “A friend of Bob s is a friend of mine”) called also double possessive …
50double genitive. — See double possessive. * * * …
