double possessive
is meant those idiomatic expressions in which both
the inflected possessive and the ―
of
‖ possessive are used, as a poem of word
worth‘s and a story of Poe‘s.
In all such expressions the plural of the first noun is understood after the
inflected possessive, as a poem of (among) word worth‘s poems and a story of
(among) Poe‘s stories. A poem of word worth, a story of Poe, that home run of
Brown are, as a matter of fact, correct, but they are not idiomatic. The substitution
of ―
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