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

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

From Washington Post

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

From Washington Post

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

At one point, after Kreon has reeled off a list of nouns and verbs that express his ethos, the chorus quibbles that the possessive pronoun “mine” isn’t a noun.

From Washington Post