are sometimes classified, along with mine, yours etc., as possessive pronouns or genitive pronouns, since they are the possessive (or genitive) forms of the ordinary personal pronouns I, you etc. They are also known as possessive adjectives, although the latter term is sometimes used with a wider meaning.Įxamples in English include possessive forms of the personal pronouns, namely: my, your, his, her, its, our and their, but excluding those forms such as mine, yours, ' ours, and theirs that are used as possessive pronouns but not as determiners. Possessive determiners constitute a sub-class of determiners which modify a noun by attributing possession (or other sense of belonging) to someone or something. Hmm… not even grammarians agree which part of speech is my in “my book”
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