Genitive and of-construction

Let’s start from the beginning Nouns may take an -'s ("apostrophe s") or GENITIVE MARKER to indicate possession:      the boy's pen    a spider's web    my girlfriend's brother    John's house plural form:      the boys' pens    the spiders' webs    the Browns' house The genitive marker should not be confused with the 's form of contracted verbs, as in John's a good boy (= John is a good boy).  

Usually we use –of when talking about inanimate things The wheels of the car The roof of this house

Of-construction After nouns that are used when talking about number, amount, measurement Example: hundreds of bees a glass of coke a bunch of keys

Between the name of a season and a year Example: In the winter of 1998 But! In the year 2005

After the words kind and sort: All kinds of animals A sort of fairy tale

Between some geographical nouns and the name that follows: The Kingdom of Denmark The County of Essex (Other similar words are province, republic, city, town, village, state, isle, island

Sometimes you can use double genitive: A good friend of my brother’s (en god vän till min bror)

Will you remember this now? To be sure you better do some exercises!

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