The A level Language textbook we use categorises 'my' 'your' 'his' 'her' 'our' and 'their' as possessive pronouns. I think they cannot be pronouns since they do not replace nouns. I have seen them

except add, ebb, inn These are one-syllable content words that begin with a vowel. I think that, psychologically perhaps, we like content words (nouns, verbs, etc., rather than determiners, prepositions, and conjunctions) to have at least three

Welcome to English Forums! I agree with Avangi. This sounds like journalistic style, in which the would be dropped. Besides that, it is disconcerting to the reader to find the determiner the after an adjective ( former ). Use Yesterday, former

Strictly speaking, it is a determiner (or an article!) rather than an adjective. That may be its function, but its part of speech is still adjective. Just before posting this, to be sure ... handy "Pocket Dictionary of Current English"

I'm not sure about that. If you say "My coat", isn't "my" being used adjectivally? Strictly speaking, it is a determiner (or an article!) rather than an adjective. That may be its function, but its part of speech is

Which part of the sentence did your teacher mark as being incorrect? Thorsten T. Rufus wrote back: She underlined the following parts: It is very important that Scottish finance system not be ruled by ... her. It won't have any influence on my

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In particular, articles belong to the category of Determiner, which ... beginning of the English noun phrase, before all the adjectives. "Ten"? Cardinal numbers seem more like adjectives than like determiners to me. "The ten

In particular, articles belong to the category of Determiner, which ... beginning of the English noun phrase, before all the adjectives. "Ten"? Cardinal numbers seem more like adjectives than like determiners to me. "The ten

) Not at all. The forms reflect the case, and the rules dictating which case is used when might change. No. You are, I think, falling into the common error (one notably common, and apparently controversial, hereabouts) of conflating inflection