Possessive proper nouns used as adjectives

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How would you punctuate the following:1. I want to marry Kate Bush's hair-stylist's dog-walker's butcher's cousin.Should there be commas separating each possessive adjective? So that it reads:2. I want to marry Kate Bush's hair-stylist's, dog-walker's, butcher's cousin.I know this is a weird construction, but I want to use such as an example of a language oddity. Thank you.

Rover_KE · Accepted Answer

1. is correctly punctuated.

2. is completely wrong.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Punpunkeach possessive adjective?

Just some terminology. These are possessive nouns. They are not adjectives. They are a different type of noun modifier ( a function class), called a https://www.thoughtco.com/determiner-in-grammar-1690442.

Adjectives generally have comparative and superlative forms. (Big, bigger, biggest)
Adjectives generally can be modified by adverbs. (very big, rather large.)

Possessives do not have these characteristics, so they are placed in a different functional category.
Some systems have a separate category for quantifiers and noun adjuncts. These are noun modifiers that are not adjectives. (e.g. "three large silver coins" - three is a quantifier; large is an adjective and silver is a noun adjunct or https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-attributive-noun-1689012.)

Possessive proper nouns used as adjectives

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