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Stephen King's short story "Gramma" (1985) was the basis for the movie Mercy (2014). Another Stephen King's story The Body (1982) was the basis for the film Stand By Me (1986).

 

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Another Stephen King's story The Body (1982) was the basis for the film Stand By Me (1986).

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Another Stephen King story The Body (1982) was the basis for the film Stand By Me (1986).

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Another story of Stephen King's, The Body (1982), was the basis for the film Stand By Me (1986).

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Another story of Stephen King, The Body (1982), was the basis for the film Stand By Me (1986).

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Another one of Stephen King's stories The Body (1982) was the basis for the film Stand By Me (1986).

 

GLOSSARY

basis or base – the content that is used as the foundation, the groundwork, for a larger work.

determiners – include categories such as articles, demonstratives, quantifiers, possessive pronouns, and numbers. All singular and some plural nouns require a noun marker such as a, the, this, those, my, each, some, all, and they express information about a noun such as specific / unspecific (a), definite / indefinite (the) singular / plural (this, these), near or far (this, that), quantity (some, few, one), possession (your, my) and other reference.

genitive / possessive – A genitive determiner (my, our, his, her, their, your, Steven's) may express ownership (my dog, Jack's dog), a natural trait (his tail, Sarah's hair), a family relationship (his mom), origin (his city), performer of an action (his arrival), and more.  See Possessive Pronouns (genitive determiners).

 

SOURCES

Huddleston, Rodney D. and Geoffrey K. Pullum. "Oblique Genitive." 5 §16.3. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge UP, 2002.

——— "Fused-head Constructions." 5 §2-3.

——— "Fused-head and Dlliptical NPs." 5 §9.1.

 

 

 

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"Stephan King." By Pinguino K, Flickr, 24 Feb. 2007. Licensed by CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Accessed 2 Feb. 2019.