Use of genitive

• • Human nouns (both proper & common)

  -> E.g. Gerald's, my husband's, ...

  • Animal nouns

  -> E.g. Horse's, cat's, ...

  • Collective nouns referring to people

  -> E.g. The goverment's, the committee's, ...

  • Locality nouns (both proper & common)

  -> E.g. London's, inne city's, this country's, ...

  • Temporal nouns

  -> E.g. A day's, week's, year's, ...

  • Measures

  -> E.g. Pound's, stone's

  • Idiomatic expressions

  -> E.g. For God's sake, to get on's money's worth, ...
• • Elliptic genitive => Contructions where head of NP is omitted but expressed elsewhere in context

  -> E.g. My car is faster than Keith's, ...

  • Local genitive => Fixed expressions denoting places

  -> E.g. St. Clement's, at my uncle's, the hairdresser's, ...

  • Double genitive => Of-construction combined with genitive form

  -> E.g. Of my sister's, of John's, ...