[Grammar] Jaris decided that any friend of Sam Purdy's deserved an additional bolus of hard-ass

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Ferdie11

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Hello,

I got this sentence from a book and I am not sure if the hightlighted words are grammatically correct. Please help.

Jaris decided that any friend of Sam Purdy's deserved an additional bolus of hard-ass attitude.


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friend of Sam Purdy has deserved
 

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Not a teacher.


The structure that puzzled you is "determiner + noun + of + possessive".

a friend of mine
that friend of Jack's
any friend of Sam Purdy's
 

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The structure that puzzled you is "determiner + noun + of + possessive".

a friend of mine
that friend of Jack's
any friend of Sam Purdy's

This sounds right, but I still need to see more examples myself. Thanks.
 

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friend of Sam Purdy has deserved

Duiter, please state that you are not a teacher, and wait longer than four minutes to jump in with a wrong answer before giving teachers and/or native speakers a chance to give the correct one.

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