possessive adjective
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possessive adjectives
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OpenAI’s filing doesn’t name the ex-employee, although it uses a male possessive adjective to refer to the person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
A possessive adjective usually precedes the word to which it relates.
From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox
And then there was the singular possessive adjective: "'Our' balloon; 'our' car; 'our' expedition."
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
The genitive is expressed by means of the possessive adjective.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
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