Hello!
Which is the correct variant: a friend of her or a friend of hers?
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The second one.[YSaerTTEW443543]
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why not first one?
a friend of her friends
Does it work?
yes, as long as you mean her friend’s friend.
Yes, but I don’t agree with Beeesneees about location of the apostrophe:
It means her friends[color=blue][size=134]'[/size] friend.
The word friends[size=125]'[/size] is the possessive form of the plural noun friends.
The word friend[size=125]'[/size]s is the possessive form of the singular noun friend.
Only pronouns have possessive forms without an apostrophe:
- yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs
Nouns require an apostrophe to create the possessive form. If the noun is singular, the apostrophe normally comes before the S. If a noun is plural, the apostrophe normally comes after the S.
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I’m sure that was a typo of Beeesneees’ ;-)[YSaerTTEW443543]
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Yes, I’m sure that was a typo. But you’ve added a good example for the reason I said ‘normally’ in my last post. There are some exceptions for the placement of the apostrophe, and those exceptions can happen when a singular noun (most often a proper noun) already ends with S. Still, it also would not be wrong to write Beeesneees’s… 
It wasn’t really a typo, I must confess. I didn’t pay enough attention to the original and was thinking of the singular ‘friend’.