Практическая грамматика

B. The Absolute Genitive.
1. The Absolute Genitive may be used anaphorically. If the noun, which is modified by the possessive case, has already been mentioned and is clear from the context, it may be omitted.
Mrs. Moss's face bore a faded resemblance to her brother's. (Eliot).
The face Michael drew began by being Victorine's and ended by being
Fleur's. (Galsworthy.)

2. The Absolute Genitive may have local meaning: the station­er's, the baker's, the tobacconist's, my uncle's etc.

On her way home she usually bought a slice of honey-cake at the baker's. (Mansfield)
My dear," said the lace collar she secured from Partridge's, I fit you beautifully." (Dreiser).
The Absolute Genitive may be introduced by the preposition of.
She is a relation of the Colonel's. (Austen)

Chapter II
THE ARTICLE

§1. General notion.

The articles belong to a syntactic class of words called determiners, which modify a noun. The determiners include:
1) The definite article and indefinite articles – a (an), the;
2) The demonstrative pronouns - this / these, that / those;
3) The dependent form of possessive pronouns (i.e. the form that is used with nouns but not separately) - my, your, his, her, its, our, their;
4) The pronouns which, whose, each, every, some, any, no, neither, either, enough, much, more, most.
There are two features that distinguish determiners from other words in a noun phrase, i.e. in a word group consisting of noun and its modifiers. Firstly, only one determiner can be used in a noun phrase, which means that determiners are reciprocally exclusive; secondly, a determiner with very few exceptions come first in a noun phrase: