possessive pronoun

American  

noun

Grammar.

1. possessive.

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Example Sentences

First, Mr. Loeb introduced “Our Colonel Stafford Warren” — his use of the possessive pronoun evoking a sense of trust — as the bomb project’s “Chief Medical Officer.”

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2021

The “being” in “being with my students” is a gerund and gets the possessive pronoun “my.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2020

“So when a president uses a personal possessive pronoun, that communicates intimacy, and sometimes that can be effective.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2019

Given that numpire and those other words were nouns, they often found themselves next to an indefinite article – a or an – or the first-person possessive pronoun, mine.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2019

When this is followed by a possessive pronoun of the first or second person the n is dropped, and the possessive pronoun takes the form which follows a preposition ending in a vowel, e’m, e’th. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry