possessive
స్వాధీనతా
definition
noun
Prenominal possessives (John's car, my hat) normally function as definite expressions.
a possessive word or form.
adjective
as soon as she'd been out with a guy a few times, he'd get possessive
demanding someone's total attention and love.
It's a relational noun, which means that a possessive shows who the noun relates to.
relating to or denoting the case of nouns and pronouns expressing possession.
example
Slowly he was becoming more and more 'possessive' , controlling, demanding.
The men looked away hurriedly when they looked upon the Princess's beauty, and 'possessive' wives quickly drew their husband's attention.
People get 'possessive' , and people are not as romantic as they used to be.
A woman can be very 'possessive' about personal accessories.
Although she may claim that her 'possessive' behaviour arises from her love, there might be a need for her to realize that love must be sustained by trust.
His great love remained his mother Louie, a dominating, 'possessive' woman who spoiled and adored her son above everything else.
You are a very 'possessive' and demanding person, rarely impulsive or casual.
But the evidence shows that 'possessive' apostrophes have been dropping like flies for years.
We all know that in English you form the 'possessive' by adding an apostrophe.
It's a relational noun, which means that a 'possessive' shows who the noun relates to.
Others unintentionally sabotage their relationships by exhibiting overly 'possessive' , clinging, dependent behaviour.
I think that men's love is very 'possessive' and involves ownership, competition, and performance.
They can be used as components of compounds, but if they are used on their own they must be used with 'possessive' prefixes.
She's always been so 'possessive' and she just… I don't know.
She had lot of people who claimed her attention but later on a particular man became more 'possessive' of her and she stopped entertaining others.
If we were not greedy, 'possessive' creatures why would we need a means to measure our worth?
Naturally, he is very 'possessive' about his collection.
He had never professed love, just a lustful 'possessive' desire that fueled the cruelty in his obsession.
He was overly 'possessive' , and he freaked if I mentioned another guy's name.
Relations that are implicit in the semantic structure of a possessed noun can affect the range of plausible interpretations of a 'possessive' construction.
Some linguists believe that English 'possessive' is no longer a case at all, but has become a clitic, an independent particle that is always pronounced as part of the preceding word.
And that's typically what happens where a mother may be very, very 'possessive' of that child.
He said yesterday: ‘I have no doubt David loved Ann very much, but it was a 'possessive' and jealous love.’
Oh look, I can understand him feeling very 'possessive' about his budget, he's been working on it a long time, but I think he needs to calm down a bit.
Actually, today, the 'possessive' and genitive are virtually the same.
Retrograde Scorpio Venus tends to showcase the acquisitive, 'possessive' , less lovely traits of the Tauran shadow.
An eagle is 'possessive' and once it has caught a fox it will not let go.
Instead of being demanding and 'possessive' like before, he was a whole new different man.
Does that mean she's already taken by an overly 'possessive' Johnny?
The 'possessive' apostrophe disappeared in place names such as ‘Coopers Creek’ decades ago.
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