adjective pronoun

American  

noun

Grammar.

1. a pronoun used as an adjective, as his in

   His dinner is ready.

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Example Sentences

Others is a compound pronoun, including both an adjective pronoun and a noun, and is equivalent to other men.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

You can not fail to observe the true character of this word called by our grammarians "adjective pronoun," "relative pronoun," and "conjunction."

From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by Balch, William Stevens

When it is a relative or an adjective pronoun, it may be known by the signs given; and whenever these signs will not apply to it, you know it is a conjunction.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

Them is the objective case of the personal pronoun and cannot be used adjectively like the demonstrative adjective pronoun.

From How to Speak and Write Correctly by Devlin, Joseph

If the noun is expressed, the word in question is called a pronominal adjective; but if the noun is omitted so that the word in question takes its place, it is called an adjective pronoun.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.