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How are compound nouns, appositives, etc., treated in the possessive?

From Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)

The passages which the translator has omitted are not the obscure episodes or the long digressions, but the metaphors, the parenthetical phrases, and especially kennings and similar appositives.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

Exercise 183—Explanatory Expressions Similar in use to appositives are— B. Words, phrases, or clauses that separate the subject from the predicate verb, the verb from its object, or the like.

From Business English A Practice Book by Buhlig, Rose