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The of-phrase and the Possessive case

Usually an of-phrase is an equivalent of a possessive case construction.

My cousin’s car = the car of my cousin

However there are three cases when an of-phrase can’t be replaced by a possessive case construction:

1) when it’s an of –phrase of composition

a drop of water

a crowd of people

a cup of tea

2) when it’s syntactically inconvenient to use the possessive case:

It was the horse of the man who was looking at me out of his eyes.

She was the sister of the girl with whom we were at school together.

3) when the noun in the of-phrase is the object of the action performed by the head noun:

The killing of the lion

Object

The Possessive case in English usually expresses subjective relations:

His children’s drawings are very good. = His children draw very well.

Whereas the of-phrase represents objective relations:

His drawings of children are very good. = He draws children well.

The Possessive case can express objective relations only when there is no fear of misunderstanding:

Kennedy’s assassination

Caesar’s murder

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