possessive pronoun

collocation in English

meaningsofpossessiveandpronoun

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possessive
adjective
uk
/pəˈzes.ɪv/us
/pəˈzes.ɪv/
If you are possessive about something that you own, you do not like lending it to other people or sharing it with ...
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pronoun
noun
uk
/ˈprəʊ.naʊn/us
/ˈproʊ.naʊn/
a word that is used instead of a noun or a ...
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(Definition ofpossessiveandpronounfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpossessive pronoun

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Aside from being prefixed by apossessivepronoun, its members undergo no changes when possessed.
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The discussion of forms of thepossessivepronoun(44), for instance, merely paraphrases the data on the map.
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Adjectives in vocative and comparative constructions (cf. note 4) are exceptional since the adjectives inflect weak without being accompanied by a demonstrative orpossessivepronoun.
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I will propose that this difference is due to the different prosodic prominence of the indefinite article and thepossessivepronoun.
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These facts certainly suggest that there is a difference in the prosodic status of the indefinite article and thepossessivepronoun.
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The addition of apossessivepronounincreases this to, at most, four.
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Although initially the lyre-ic speaker marks his ownership of such deeper and richer music, "strain" and "refrain" are repeated in the rentrement without thepossessivepronoun.
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I have never known a possessive preposition to come before apossessivepronounin this way—but perhaps it does.
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Thepossessivepronounis formed by putting the agreeing definite article before the long form of the possessive adjective.
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The 1spossessivepronounhas several allomorphs; after a consonant, the form "inu" is used and after a vowel the form "nu".
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Notice how the plural possessor forms are identical to thepossessivepronounforms.
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However, it is also possible that "malchi" is not apossessivepronounbut genitive case.
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Some languages use the same word for both the possessive adjective and the matchingpossessivepronoun.
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In texts of hieroglyphs it can be found commonly used as thepossessivepronoun, namely as, "his", "hers", or "its".
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English valedictions typically contain thepossessivepronounyours.
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