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To give everybody a rest from Henry James:
An ESL student in my class wrote, "Now I am a friend of him." Is there a
good reason I can give him for why it should be "of HIS"?
It gets funny with proper names, too. If we knew each other well, I might
describe myself as a friend of Bill Clinton's. But, at least for the
first four or five days of his term, I would have described myself as a
supporter of Bill Clinton. Go figure. Please.
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