While it was 30/9/03 10:50 pm throughout the UK, Mike Oliver sprinkled little black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus: You're thinking of a "predicate adjective". It seems a little ... a predicate nominative by whether or

The inimitable Stewart Gordon stated one day While it was 1/10/03 4:47 am throughout the UK, CyberCypher sprinkled little black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus: Why use any comma at all? I wouldn't. You don't have to, obviously.

While it was 30/9/03 10:50 pm throughout the UK, Mike Oliver sprinkled little black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus: You're thinking of a "predicate adjective". It seems a little circular to say that an adjective is

Well, but the part corresponding to "their" would be "the Wilsons'", which isn't a noun phrase. (Of course "the Wilsons" ... a noun phrase, then it's not a pronoun. OTOH it definitely modifies a noun

The inimitable Mike Oliver (Email Removed) stated one day Well, but the part corresponding to "their" would be "the Wilsons'", which isn't a noun phrase. (Of course "the Wilsons" is a noun phrase, but

Yes, but when you want to use "their" that way, it has to be changed to "theirs", just as you've ... functioning as possessive adjectives in phrases like "their child" and pronouns functioning as NPs when used in

The inimitable Mike Oliver (Email Removed) stated one day They are convinced that when the reference is to no one in particular and regardless of sex, "their" is the correct pronoun. I remember that in school it seemed clear to me that

While it was 30/9/03 7:10 pm throughout the UK, Mike Oliver sprinkled little black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus: I remember that in school it seemed clear to me ... was that they were "possessive pronouns", so I memorized

While it was 30/9/03 7:10 pm throughout the UK, Mike Oliver sprinkled little black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus: I remember that in school it seemed clear to me that "my", "your", etc, were *adjectives*, because

They are convinced that when the reference is to no one in particular and regardless of sex, "their" is the correct pronoun. I remember that in school it seemed clear to me that "my", "your", etc, were *adjectives*,