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s
room. The last word of the group need not even be a noun: I 
shall be back 
in an houror two
’s
 
time. 
As to its use the genitive case falls under: 
(A) The Dependent Genitive. 
(B) The Absolute Genitive. 
The Dependent Genitive is used with the noun it modifies and comes before it. 
The Absolute Genitive may be used without any noun or be separated from the noun it 
modifies. 
1. The chief meaning of the genitive case is that of possession: 
...a young man and a girl came out of the 
solicitor’s
office. 
(Braine)
He stayed at 
Fanny’s
flat. 
(Aldington)
2. Very close to the meaning of possession is that of a part to a whole: 
A faint smile had come on 
Victorine’s
face — she was adding up the money she might 
earn. 
(Galsworthy)
His 
sister’s
eyes fixed on him with a certain astonishment, obliged him at last to look at 
Fleur. 
(Galsworthy)
3. The Dependent Genitive may express the doer of an action (the so-called subjective 
genitive) or show that some person is the object of the action (the so-called objective 
genitive): 
It was 
Tom’s
step, then, that Maggie heard on the steps. 
(Eliot) 
Gwendolen’s
reception in 
the neighbourhood fulfilled her uncle’s 
expectations. 
(Eliot)
The use of the genitive case of nouns denoting inanimate things and abstract notions is 
rather limited. 
The genitive case of nouns denoting inanimate things may denote 
the
relations between a 
part and the whole. 
...the sudden shaking of an 
aspen’s
leaves in the puffs of breeze that rose 
along the river... 
(Galsworthy)
He stepped on the 
truck’s
running board hanging on with his left arm. 
(Heym)
The genitive case of nouns expressing time, space and weight is widely used. 

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