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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

The besieged's.

What is the grammatical definition of the besieged's please?

Is it a double genitive? Someone that is besieged's actions or events.
  

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Anonymous Someone that is besieged's actions or events. Sorry, but that sentence makes no sense to me. Is there more context?

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous Someone that is besieged's actions or events.
  • Sorry, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
  • Is there more context?
  • Did you copy it carefully?
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AnonymousSomeone that is besieged's actions or events.
Sorry, but that sentence makes no sense to me. Is there more context? Did you copy it carefully?
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The besieged's operations were taking place on the plain.
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'Besieged' is an adjective acting as a noun (or pronoun), as in 'the rich get rich and the poor get poorer'.
'Beseiged's' is just the possessive of the pronoun: it is now a determiner modifying 'operations'.
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Thank you.

Now I have to affirm that the Latin de or ex obsidentium fits.

At least I'm aware of its being the possessive of the pronoun that goes with the adjective.

Thanks.
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