Summary of Phrasal Possessives, Grammar Girl #887

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This YouTube video explains the concept of phrasal possessives, which are possessive words that are attached to other words in a phrase. The video points out that mine is already possessive, so adding an apostrophe s to make it possessive doesn't make sense. However, something else is actually going on in this sentence fragment, and it's called a phrasal possessive.

• 00:00:00 In this video, grammar girl explains the concept of phrasal possessives, which are possessive words that are attached to other words in a phrase. She points out that mine is already possessive, so adding an apostrophe s to make it possessive doesn't make sense. However, something else is actually going on in this sentence fragment, and it's called a phrasal possessive.