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| I wonder if itīs right to say: A friend of John (me) is coming to Brazil next week |
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| A friend of John's is coming to Brazil next week. A friend of mine/his/hers is coming to Brazil next week. |
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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. |
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http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...thers-who.html |
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