DOUBLE POSSESSIVE


Meaning of DOUBLE POSSESSIVE in English

noun

: a syntactic construction in English consisting of the preposition of followed by a noun in the possessive case (as of Bill's in a friend of Bill's ) or by a possessive pronoun (as of mine in this brain of mine ) and having the same meaning as if the idea of possession were expressed only once

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