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possessive pronouns #1 (permalink) Tue May 06, 2008 21:13 pm   possessive pronouns		  
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.
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possessive pronouns #2 (permalink) Tue May 06, 2008 22:32 pm   possessive pronouns		  
Hi,

To my simple mind a pronoun is a pronoun and an adjective is an adjective.

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possessive pronouns #3 (permalink) Wed May 07, 2008 6:51 am   possessive pronouns		  
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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possessive pronouns #4 (permalink) Wed May 07, 2008 6:53 am   possessive pronouns		  
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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