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Under what general circumstances do we prefer genitive to of-phrase?
When nouns refer to people and the relation between the nouns is one of definition classification,etc.Genitives are preferred when nouns refer to inanimate lifeless objects,and the head words of noun phrase are classifying adjectives of-phrase are classifying adjectives,of-phrase are preferred.麻烦把答案换个说法,但是意思不变.