A gaunt, tall, spectacled creature, gender feminine, number singular, person first, case always possessive, that's the standard bearer; a broomstick from the top of which floats a petticoat, that's the standard.

She had not reached the point of wishing definitely that he should suffer, but the sight of Ettabeautiful, self-confident, carelessly possessive in respect to Paulhad brought her within measurable distance of it.

POSSESSIVE RELATIONS 1.

NOTE.In addressing an officer of grade superior to his own, an officer must use the possessive adjective; a senior addressing a junior uses the title of the grade only.

[Footnote 1: From chalchihuitl, jade, and cueitl, skirt or petticoat, with the possessive prefix, i, her.]

What is the possessive case?

He makes the possessive case an adjective; and so did Brightland.

The possessive case often drops the apostrophe; as in herdsman, kitesfoot.

"But it is only so, when the expression can be converted into the regular form of the possessive case.

4. By what is the possessive case governed?

7. Is the possessive case always governed by the name of the thing possessed?

What article may sometimes be used in lieu of a possessive pronoun?

Why cannot two nouns, each having the possessive sign, be put in apposition with each other?

Why is it reasonable to limit the government of the possessive to nouns only, or to words taken substantive?

Does the possessive case before a real participle denote the possessor of something? 36.

When one doubts whether a participle ought to be the governing word or the adjunct,that is, whether he ought to use the possessive case before it or the objective,what shall he do?

In what other form can the meaning of the possessive case be expressed?

Is the possessive often governed by what is not expressed?

Does every possessive sign imply a separate governing noun?

Do we put the sign of possession always and only where the two terms of the possessive relation meet?

Why is Murray's rule for the possessive case objectionable?

What is remarked of the possessive relation between time and action?

"They may not, in their present form, be readily accommodated to every circumstance belonging to the possessive case of nouns.

But its chief use is, to denote the possessive case of nouns.

The final -oy is probably identical with the -ey (isle) which occurs in Athelney and Muchelney, whilst chedz- may be the possessive of Cedda, a Saxon personal name.