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Re: possessive pronouns, incorrect information on your site

Gervais
James:

http://www.softschools.com/examples/grammar/possessive_adjectives_versus_possessive_pronouns_examples/82/

Yes - it's all there: .....possessive_pronouns_examples/82/


Warning - Do not Trust The Above Website! - PM

The above link takes the reader to a "Mickey Mouse" website for raw beginners based on nonsense out-of-date grammar. Regrettably, it's not alone: there are quite a few others like it.

No one who takes grammar seriously calls the "his" of "his car", or the "their" of "their house" possessive adjectives. They are possessive pronouns functioning as possessive determiners. UCL (University College London) is a genuinely useful resource:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/determin/pronoun.htm

As is the Cambridge dictionary:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/pronouns/pronouns-possessive-my-mine-your-yours-etc.

And the Oxford dictionary too:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/his.

Both dictionaries call such items "possessive determiners", which is actually their function - not their word category - but at least they don't make the child-like mistake of calling them possessive adjectives!

PaulM