possessive pronoun
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
In the Mixteca language, the personal sign is the unchanged possessive pronoun.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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