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 Tue May 06, 2008 23:32 pm possessive pronouns |
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Hi,
To my simple mind a pronoun is a pronoun and an adjective is an adjective.
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| Wed May 07, 2008 7:51 am possessive pronouns |
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In that case, what is "which" here?
Which books?
How about here?
Mary was happy when I asked her.
Mary was happy when I asked her mother. |
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| Wed May 07, 2008 7:53 am possessive pronouns |
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| cwhedlund wrote: | | If a possessive pronouns is used as a possessive adjective, (...his book) is it still a pronoun and an adjective, or is it only an adjective and no longer a pronoun. |
adjective pronoun = a pronoun behaving adjectivally. The form is pronoun and the function adjective.
Or:
4) Adjective pronouns, words, primarily adjectives, which are classed as adjectives when they modify nouns, but as pronouns when they stand for nouns.
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/wmbaskervill/bl-wmbaskervill-grammar-parts-pronouns.htm
But:
"Hence these words are like adjectives used as nouns, which we have seen in such expressions as, "The dead are there;" that is, a word, in order to be an adjective pronoun, must not modify any word, expressed or understood. It must come under the requirement of pronouns, and stand for a noun."
Same link.
Isn't there a contradiction with the brown parts above? |
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