of this inflectional analysis includes: the personal pronouns, where "no other analysis is possible", the fact that the genitive s cannot stand alone, unlike m in I'm, which can be expanded to am the varying form of the genitive suffix (/ɪz/, /z/, /s/) depending on "the phonological properties of the base to which it attaches" the sensitivity of the genitive formation to the internal morphological structure of the noun. Other views are (1) that the possessive can be regarded as having elements of an affix and elements of a clitic, which are seen as idealized categories, and (2) that the possessive form can be an affix or a clitic, but only one of the two in any given example. Notes External links Using the possessive in English A guide for learners of English Possessive Possessive Genitive construction fr:Génitif#Génitif saxon