Dear English teachers
What is the difference between she is my friend and she is one of my friends?
regards
thanks alotShe is my friend. You are speaking exclusively/only about one person. You might or might not have other friends.
She is one of my friends. You are speaking about one of other friends you have.
I didn't follow the links, and in case anyone else just looks at your list and thinks they are all okay, I need to say "A friend of mine's" is NOT okay. There is no such thing as "mine's" to indicated possession.
Unless the context is different:
Mine is clearly bigger.
Mine's clearly bigger.
If I am not mistaken, of course.
"Mine + s" is not indicative of possession in the same way that "John + s" is. "Mine's" is simply short for "Mine is".
We don't use "apostrophe + s" to indicate possession in the first person singular.
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That so? All this time I've been saying things like: 'My hair is short, but a friend of mine's is long'. I knew it was inelegant, but I've never thought of it as wrong... Who'da thunk it?
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I know I changed the context, but it seemed to me that you were advancing a general rule ('We don't use "apostrophe + s" to indicate possession in the first person singular') - I questioned that (in case a student thought it was true in all contexts) ;-)
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That so? All this time I've been saying things like: 'My hair is short, but a friend of mine's is long'. I knew it was inelegant, but I've never thought of it as wrong... Who'da thunk it?
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