1) a) I met another boyfriend of Lucy’s yesterday.
b) I met another boyfriend of Lucy yesterday.
2) a) He’s a cousin of the Queen’s.
b) He’s a cousin of the Queen.
Are these sentences interchangeable?
What's the difference between them?..
possesive case
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Re: possesive case
Only (1b) is not acceptable, since, regarding proper versus common nouns, the double-possessive construction tends to be obligatory only in the case of the former.