A partitive is a grammatical term that refers to a construction used to express a portion or a part of a whole. This concept is common in various languages and can appear in several forms, such as nouns, pronouns, or phrases that convey the idea of 'some' or 'a part of'. In English, partitive constructions typically involve expressions like "some of," "a piece of," "a portion of," and so forth.
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