I found this blog post fascinating, so I'm going to copy/and paste right here!
You can add a genitive ’s to a preposition in Englishby Joe McVeigh |
A couple of weeks ago, Dr. Gwen Rehrig tweeted a poll to ask if this sentence is acceptable to American English speakers:
Is this sentence acceptable to other native American English speakers?:
"The lady I was just talking to's mother is a famous author."— Dr. Gwen Rehrig (@grehrig) February 11, 2019
As you can see, over 80% of people said it was either definitely or possibly acceptable. I replied that every single student in my grammar class said “Nooope. No way.” when I asked them. 
But hang on, is that sentence unacceptable in Standard English? Read more of this post
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