NOUNS (grade 2 homework)

possessive pronoun I stole his bicycle.

AvangiI stole his bicycle.

But beware. Many will insist that "http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/his%5B1%5D" is a possessive adjective in that particular sentence.

Y'know, I was worried about that so I looked it up. Oh well, couldn't find it! (I did find it listed in an article on "possessive pronouns.") Might there be an example of "his" which is more clearly a pronoun?

The Cambridge Dictionary refers to "his" as a "determiner" and as "a pronoun". The Oxford Dictionary uses the term "possessive determiner". And in the 1913 edition of Webster's, "his" was apparently considered to be only a pronoun. So, there doesn't seem to be any universal agreement about what to call the word "his" in a sentence like yours, but at least there does seem to be universal agreeme

Thanks, Amy. I know it's not a demonstrative pronoun (although it acts like one here - Hmmm, maybe not), and I promised myself not to make any more assumptions today.