1. The shirt he wore in this year's high school reunion was smaller than the one he wore at last year's. (But better: than the one he wore last year.) 2. The year-end sales figure for our company was higher than last year's. OK. 3.

Hi, The natural thing to say is simply 'My driver's licence is red' . My sweater is green. etc. Best wishes, Clive

" The colour of my driver's license is red." You could use such a sentence.

Which is correct: "My driver's licence color ... is red" or "My driver licence's color ... is red?"

I think the original post was referring to possessives in general, not just 'him'. Trad grams called my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their possessive adjectives . However, in many modern grammars they came to be called

As far as I understand, a possessive adjective is placed before a noun : This is his car . A possessive pronoun cannot have a noun after it: This car is his . However, in many European countries terminology is different and the term possessive

These are correct. Are you supposed to make the nouns possessive?? My take would be: The monkey's tail The two deer's antlers The Rosses' two dogs (We'd prefer that you take a stab at something like this before asking for help.)

This has been discussed at length somewhere else, I know. As far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't replace a noun, it isn't a pronoun. My, your, his, her, our, their are adjectives (although his does double duty as a pronoun as well). I

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

There is a difference between writing and speaking. If when talking you say "Whos going," the listener will likely hear it as Who is going . But if you write who's, the reader is apt to think it is a possessive, as in Who's key