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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Sowbug who wrote (1041)4/2/1998 10:26:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 4711
 
Hi Sowbug,

""Friend of mine." Why not "friend of me?"

You do come up with some interesting questions. In brief, I don't have an answer. But I'll try to give an explanation.

"friend of mine" is the way we express possession when we don't just want to use the adjectival possessive "my friend". The expression "of me" is usually not used to express the possessive. It's used more in a sense of "from me", as in, "What do they want of me?"

But Cole Porter (I think) used it as a possessive in one of his songs:

I'd like to gain complete control of you
And handle even the heart and soul of you,
So love at least a small percent of me, do
'Cause I love all of you.

Jack
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