Possessive adjectives or possessive pronouns?

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Bird Of Paradise  #381936  Wed, 20 Jun 07 11:23 AM

Please somebody help me in the following.

This is her book.

That is my cup.

In the above sentences her and my are possessive adjectives are possessive pronouns?

  
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Mister Micawber  #381966  Wed, 20 Jun 07 12:14 PM

They are adjectives, the possessive case of 'she' and 'I' respectively.  As an object pronoun:  I saw her yesterday.  The object pronoun for 'I' is of course 'me'.


  
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Bird Of Paradise  #381975  Wed, 20 Jun 07 12:26 PM

Thanks, M.M. for your help. I was just consulting my dictionary for it when u replied. But to my great surprise Her has not been mentioned in my dictionary as an adjective, but as a pronoun and determiner. In the later case its function was the same as in adjective. Could you pleas tell me the difference between determiner and this form of adjective (her pen)? Thanks.

  
Mister Micawber  #382027  Wed, 20 Jun 07 01:31 PM

DETERMINERS are a subset of adjectives.

  
CalifJim  #382235  Wed, 20 Jun 07 09:23 PM
Possessive adjectives:

This is [my / your / his / her / our / their] [cup / book / ...].

Possessive pronouns:

This [cup / book / ...] is [mine / yours / his / hers / ours / theirs].

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Anonymous  #427264  Fri, 05 Oct 07 05:36 AM
The problem is The US English put "her and my" as pronouns in whatever cases (My son's text book says so). It is very confusing. And I do not understand why.
  
Anonymous  #461807  Tue, 08 Jan 08 12:49 PM
there pronouns
  
Anonymous  #478571  Mon, 18 Feb 08 09:01 PM
 they are adjective pronouns.
  
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