noun + OF + MINE | YOURS – English Grammar Profiler
Here is another example of overlapping grammar points in the English Grammar Profile.
B1 Point 37 in the category of NOUNS/phrases is defined as:
NOUN + ‘OF’ + POSSESSIVE PRONOUN
Which overlaps the more specific B1 point 47 in the category of PRONOUNS:
possessive pronoun ‘yours’ after noun + ‘of’.
It would be very beneficial for the users of the EGP to note that: ‘noun of his | hers | theirs’ is listed at C2. And the use of ‘Ours’ in the same structure is B2.
And A2 Point 13 in the category of PRONOUNS/possessive is defined as:
pronoun ‘mine’ after ‘of’ in the phrases ‘a friend of mine’ and ‘friends of mine’.
A2 point 31 in PRONOUNS:
‘the possessive pronoun ‘mine’, with singular and plural reference, in subject and object positions, and complement positions after ‘be’ and after prepositions
EXPERT EXAMPLE:
And a friend of mine said, you know,
you might want to take this linguistics class, and I signed up for it.
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A search in iWeb for _PPGE
1 MINE 561048
2 YOURS 420899
3 HIS 320102
4 OURS 172618
5 THEIRS 96995
6 HERS 64995
_NN of mine|yours
A2 1 FRIEND OF MINE 64278
2 FRIENDS OF MINE 7364
3 FAVORITE OF MINE 6214
4 BUDDY OF MINE 4280
5 DREAM OF MINE 2991
TLC STUDENT SPEAKING TEST:
(referring to being able to fly)
It’s a dream of mine.
Female, China, B2
6 PASSION OF MINE 2642 7 COLLEAGUE OF MINE 2496 8 FAVOURITE OF MINE 2349 9 CLIENT OF MINE 1793 10 FRIEND OF YOURS 1769 11 GOAL OF MINE 1709 12 PEEVE OF MINE 1611 13 MATE OF MINE 1584 14 WAR OF MINE 1294 15 FAN OF YOURS 1203 16 POST OF YOURS 1157 17 CONCERN OF MINE 1018 18 POST OF MINE 1017 19 HOBBY OF MINE 964 20 PROJECT OF MINE 913 21 HERO OF MINE 784 22 STUDENT OF MINE 773 23 ACQUAINTANCE OF MINE 694 24 INTEREST OF MINE 685 25 CHILD OF MINE 683 26 RELATIVE OF MINE 680 27 LIFE OF MINE 593 28 FAVORITES OF MINE 555 29 MIND OF MINE 531 30 HEART OF MINE 485 31 COUSIN OF MINE 484 32 CO-WORKER OF MINE 482 33 FRIENDS OF YOURS 476 34 CUSTOMER OF MINE 459 35 LOVE OF MINE 458 36 MENTOR OF MINE 456 37 HABIT OF MINE 436 38 LIGHT OF MINE 426 39 NEIGHBOR OF MINE 406 40 COWORKER OF MINE 367 41 PATIENT OF MINE 351 42 RECIPE OF YOURS 347 43 SON OF MINE 346 44 PAL OF MINE 339 45 OBSESSION OF MINE 336 46 GIRLFRIEND OF MINE 331 47 COLLEAGUES OF MINE 322 48 BOOK OF MINE 320 49 LAND OF MINE 302 50 PART OF MINE 302 51 WEAKNESS OF MINE 296 52 TEACHER OF MINE 294 53 CLASSMATE OF MINE 292 54 WORDS OF MINE 289 55 ARTICLE OF MINE 285 56 MEMBER OF MINE 281 57 CONCERN OF YOURS 278 58 BROTHER OF MINE 274 59 IDEA OF MINE 268 60 PROFESSOR OF MINE 268 61 PICTURE OF MINE 264 62 STORY OF MINE 258 63 THEORY OF MINE 257 64 CUSTOMER OF YOURS 256 65 POSTS OF YOURS 254 66 CLIENTS OF MINE 251 67 FAULT OF MINE 250 68 PLEASURE OF MINE 250 69 FEAR OF MINE 245 70 PRIORITY OF MINE 239 71 IDEA OF YOURS 236 72 PIC OF MINE 235 73 ARTICLE OF YOURS 234 74 PART OF YOURS 233 75 PROBLEM OF MINE 228 76 BLOG OF MINE 224 77 FAVE OF MINE 217 78 GOAL OF YOURS 216 79 PROJECT OF YOURS 212 80 UNCLE OF MINE 212 81 PICS OF MINE 207 82 BUDDIES OF MINE 201 83 BODY OF MINE 199 84 PHOTO OF MINE 198 85 FAVOURITES OF MINE 197 86 HEAD OF YOURS 197 87 BRAIN OF YOURS 195
88 DREAM OF YOURS 195
89 PARTNER OF MINE 190 90 FANTASY OF MINE 188 91 WORK OF MINE 186 92 CLIENT OF YOURS 183 93 FAN OF MINE 181 94 SONG OF MINE 181 95 FAVORITE OF YOURS 180 96 AMBITION OF MINE 178 97 EXPERIENCE OF MINE 178 98 MAN OF MINE 178 99 BOOK OF YOURS 177
100 POSTS OF MINE 177
A2:
brain, classmate, colleague, colleagues, cousin, customer, dream, fan, girlfriend, goal, heart, hobby, idea, member, mind, mine, partner, post, posts, project, song, story, uncle, war, worker, yours
B1:
ambition, article, blog, experience, fault, favourites, fear, habit, hero, interest, land, mate, patient, pleasure, professor, recipe, relative
*Note there are only two student examples of ‘of yours’ in the whole Trinity Lancaster Corpus (TLC) and it is in the same ‘sentence’ at C1:
Writing letters can make your friends or parents feel the feeling of yours,
and they can see the words of yours,
so maybe this feeling is good enough rather than sending a message.
Female China C1