Re: Reflexive (was Re: Help on Verbs...)

Nik Taylor wrote:

> -'s can detached
> from the possessor, as in the standard example "The Queen of England's
> crown",
Mencken (I think) cites the spoken example "That-there umbrella's the young lady I go
with's" = "That umbrella belongs to the young lady I go with."

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