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

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

Thank you, Barbara. Its is a possessive determiner, isn't it?

Can the above definition also be extended to countable plural nouns? No. Countable plural nouns do not require a determiner. Example: Bills keep piling up on my desk. I must pay them some day! How many kinds of determiners are there in English?

The Cambridge Dictionary refers to "his" as a "determiner" and as "a pronoun". The Oxford Dictionary uses the term "possessive determiner". And in the 1913 edition of Webster's, "his" was

Their petrified faces make the life of a sailor seem horrifying. Can you please see if my analysis of the above sentence is correct, please. Analysis of the whole sentence: Their petrified faces =subject/noun phrase make =main verb the life of a

Russian is a highly inflected language, having as I recall, 6 cases with different endings for singlar and plural.Adjectives are similarly inflected. Ah! OK. Then you probably recall the Russian "instrumental case". In English "with

I never saw an adjective that couldn't follow is . I'll bet you have! He is a mere child. The child is mere??? What is the child like? Mere. He is a possible candidate. The candidate is possible??? What is the candidate like? Possible.

Anaylsis of the large structure: Independent clause #1 : I can not tell you that, mate, Conjunction joining two independent clauses: but Independent clause #2: what I can tell you is that it was one day before my birthday ____________________

Thank you. If I take out the possessive part of the name "***'s" and have the generic word/noun "restaurant" in small letter intact, then should I put the definite article "the" or indefinite article "a"