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Когда нужно употреблять только of вместо притяжательного падежа? Четкого правила я нигде не обнаружил. Одни рекомендации. Опытные, поделитесь, пожалуйста, советом...
of VS -'s/-'
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Re: of VS -'s/-'
The_Chosen_Dio wrote:Четкого правила я нигде не обнаружил. ...
потому, что употребляется и то и другое. Of и 's часто взаимозаменяемы.
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Иоп wrote:К сожалению, Вы ошибаетесь.
Наберите в гугле "my car's" и Вы увидите, что 's часто употребляется в смысле of
Наберите в гугле "ain't nobody"

Navskidku iz "English Grammar In Use" by Murphy: we normally use 's when the first noun is a person or an animal... sometimes you can use 's when the first noun is a thing... but it is safer and more usual to use "... of ...". You can usually use 's when the first noun is an organisation.
Well, granted this is a quote from a "British English" grammar book.
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да, не рекомендуется употреблять 's для неодушевленных, но возможно...
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm
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Many writers consider it bad form to use apostrophe -s possessives with pieces of furniture and buildings or inanimate objects in general. Instead of "the desk's edge" (according to many authorities), we should write "the edge of the desk" and instead of "the hotel's windows" we should write "the windows of the hotel." In fact, we would probably avoid the possessive altogether and use the noun as an attributive: "the hotel windows." This rule (if, in fact, it is one) is no longer universally endorsed. We would not say "the radio of that car" instead of "that car's radio" (or the "car radio") and we would not write "the desire of my heart" instead of "my heart's desire." Writing "the edge of the ski" would probably be an improvement over "the ski's edge," however.
For expressions of time and measurement, the possessive is shown with an apostrophe -s: "one dollar's worth," "two dollars' worth," "a hard day's night," "two years' experience," "an evening's entertainment," and "two weeks' notice" (the title of the Hollywood movie nothwithstanding).
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm