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II. Comment upon the use of the Absolute Genitive



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II. Comment upon the use of the Absolute Genitive.
1. He could not hope for a meal at Ruth's. (London). 2. It is the Prince of Wales', the one theatre where one may enjoy a pleasant certainty of being rationally amused. (Broughton). 3. I sit down in another arm-chair, not far from Roger's. (Broughton). 4. There is a characteristic touch of cynicism in this remark of Palmerston's. (Berkeley). 5. They had people coming to dinner: a very sound couple − and a "find" of Bertha's called Pear Ful­ton. (Mansfield). 6. There's an old gold watch of your father's in my desk. (Dreiser). 7. There were but four rooms in the little house − three when Martin's was subtracted. (London). 8. The money would solve his mother's problem as fully as it would Hortense's. (Dreiser). 9. This old woman walked very slowly, and we were twenty minutes getting to her lady friend's. (Jerome).


III. Open the brackets and account for the choice of the casal form.
Model: "It's men such as you that hamper the (world) progress." (Jerome). − "It's men such as you that hamper the world's pro­gress."
1. It is one of (Harris) fixed ideas that he can sing a comic song. (Jerome). 2. If he had had the courage, if George and Miss Sedley had remained, according to the (former) proposal. Joseph (Sedley) bachelorhood would have been at an end. (Thackeray). 3. We had come out for a (fortnight) enjoyment on the river. (Jerome). 4. It is really most annoying, the manner in which these rowing boats get in the way of (one) launch up the river. (Jerome). 5. I never minded those things [smoking], but it seemed odd to me, in (somebody else) room. (Du Maurier). 6. (Isabel) friends could hardly go sneaking up to the nursery at the (children) meal-times. (Mansfield). 7. "For all I can tell, instead of paying a dividend we ought to be setting this (year) profits against a certain loss next year". (Galsworthy). 8. See the glories of (India) past. ("Sevika"). 9. The old donkeys and engines were "so dreadfully sentimen­tal" and "so appallingly bad for the (babies) sense of form." (Mansfield). 10. Oh, to be away from this! ... or to be covered up in anything, one of those (women) shawls even. (Mansfield).




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