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Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.

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How to Use the Word of in a Phrase

The of indicates possession as does the word mine, which is what makes it a double possessive. I also find of to be useful when I'm dealing with a complex trail of possession. There's at least one idiom where you need an of in the phrase a couple of. You have a couple of marimba's, a couple of friends, and a couple of feather boas.

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