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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

possessive pronoun

Can you use a possessive pronoun with a verb like: tell us your experience?
  

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'Experience' is a noun in that sentence. I prefer to think of 'your' as a possessive determiner. For me, the possessive pronoun is 'yours'

— Fivejedjon

  • 'Experience' is a noun in that sentence.
  • I prefer to think of 'your' as a possessive determiner.
  • For me, the possessive pronoun is 'yours'
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'Experience' is a noun in that sentence.

I prefer to think of 'your' as a possessive determiner. For me, the possessive pronoun is 'yours'
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fivejedjonI prefer to think of 'your' as a possessive determiner.
I consider it a (possessive) pronoun-determiner. After all, your fills in for the possessive form of a someone’s name.
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True, but unlike those words normally classified as pronouns, the ones some of us think of as possessive determiners (traditionally called possessive adjectives by many) must be followed by a noun:

Yours is bigger than mine.
Your is bigger than my.
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Indeed. That’s why I call it a pronoun-determiner.
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I checked with eight online dictionaries. The results were:

Possessive determiner: 3
Adjective: 2
Determiner 2
Pronoun 1

We'll have to agree to differ.
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fivejedjonWe'll have to agree to differ.
OK, I can live with that, but let me just ask you one question. In the sentence I like your tie, is the word your nor functioning as both a pronoun and a determiner?
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Aspara Gus fivejedjonWe'll have to agree to differ.OK, I can live with that, but let me just ask you one question. In the sentence I like your tie, is the word your nor functioning as both a pronoun and a determiner?
My personal view is that it shares features of both an adjective and a pronoun. Although it is pronominal in that it can be used in place of (th
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