possessive adjective
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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That’s true despite the possessive adjective in the title, or the fact that the director, an artist, plays an artist, Ellie.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2018
The words my, thy, his, her, our, your, their, are, by many, denominated possessive adjective pronouns; but they always stand for nouns in the possessive case.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel
And then there was the singular possessive adjective: "'Our' balloon; 'our' car; 'our' expedition."
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules
"And such as prefer, can parse it as a possessive adjective."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Mine is frequent before a vowel, especially when the possessive adjective is not emphatic.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
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