4 Metaphors for possessives

Every participle so depending is an adjunct to the noun; and every possessive, in its turn, is an adjunct to the word which governs it.

The nominative, which usually stands before a verb; as, the boy writes: The possessive, which takes an s with a comma, and denotes property; as, John's hat: The objective, which follows a verb or preposition; as, he honors virtue, or it is an honor to him.

The possessives only are "pronouns;" and these are pronouns of the possessive case.

But, on page 56th, he speaks of a "twofold subjective case," "the twofold objective case," and shows how the possessive may be twofold also; so that, without taking any of the Latin cases, or even all of Hall's, he really recognizes as many as seven, if not eight.

4 Metaphors for  possessives