a friend of - possessive pronoun

[beachboy]

A friend of John´s (mine) is coming to Brazil next week.
I wonder if it´s right to say:
A friend of John (me) is coming to Brazil next week

[Offroad]

A friend of John's is coming to Brazil next week.
A friend of mine/his/hers is coming to Brazil next week.

[philo2009]

Originally Posted by beachboy

A friend of John´s (mine) is coming to Brazil next week.
I wonder if it´s right to say:
A friend of John (me) is coming to Brazil next week

Generally speaking, about the only circumstance in which you will ever find the construction [NP of PRN] is where the of-phrase constitutes an objective, rather than a subjective (i.e. 'possessive'), genitive.

Thus, we can say

Their interrogation of him produced no results.

because the interrogation is an action done to him, rather than something that he in any sense 'possesses', but not

*A friend of him was being interrogated in the next room.

In this case we would use the so-called 'double possessive':

A friend of his was being interrogated in the next room.

[Raymott]

Originally Posted by beachboy

A friend of John´s (mine) is coming to Brazil next week.
I wonder if it´s right to say:
A friend of John (me) is coming to Brazil next week

Also, see the thread
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...thers-who.html