Possessive
31possessive determiner — ► NOUN Grammar ▪ a determiner indicating possession, for example my …
32possessive pronoun — ► NOUN Grammar ▪ a pronoun indicating possession, for example mine …
33Possessive adjective — Examples Do you like my new dress? Please wash your hands. Her train leaves in an hour. English grammar series English grammar Contraction …
34Possessive pronoun — A possessive pronoun is a part of speech that attributes ownership to someone or something. Like all other pronouns, it substitutes a noun phrase and can prevent its repetition. For example, in the phrase, These glasses are mine, not yours , the… …
35Possessive determiners — ◊ GRAMMAR Possessive determiners show who or what something belongs to or is connected with. The possessive determiners are: You choose a possessive determiner according to the identity of the person or thing who has the thing you are talking… …
36possessive determiners — ◊ GRAMMAR Possessive determiners show who or what something belongs to or is connected with. The possessive determiners are: You choose a possessive determiner according to the identity of the person or thing who has the thing you are talking… …
37Possessive suffix — In linguistics, a possessive suffix is a suffix attached to a noun to indicate its possessor, much in the manner of possessive adjectives. Possessive suffixes do not exist in all languages; they do exist in some Uralic, Semitic, and Indo European …
38Possessive case — The possessive case of a language is a grammatical case used to indicate a relationship of possession. It is not the same as the genitive case, which can express a wider range of relationships, though the two have similar meanings in many… …
39Possessive antecedent — In English grammar, a pronoun has a possessive antecedent if its antecedent (the noun that it refers to) appears in a possessive case; for example, in the following sentence, Winston Churchill is a possessive antecedent, serving as it does as the …
40possessive pronoun — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms possessive pronoun : singular possessive pronoun plural possessive pronouns linguistics a pronoun such as mine , theirs , or yours that shows who something belongs to …
