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

Welcome to EF, badgrammar! I hope you'll soon be able to change your screen name to Good Grammar. It is correct to use the possessive form whose as a relative pronoun whenever a possessive form is needed: This house, whose windows are shut,

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

"Their" is a possessive adjective. You use it when you want to say that something belongs to something else, like, "their website" (the website belongs to them) It is a kind of universal pronoun, not commonly used to refer to

No, "father" needs either an article or possessive pronoun. His father, my father, the father and his son... If you actually call him "Father" (like I say "Dad") the capitalize it, without the article. "Father,

"I live in a small house with my parents and my brother and sister" In the sentence above, are supposed to use and article or a possessive pronoun before brother and sister ? ...or while talking about father... "I have a father.

Sentences like "I live with my parents and brother and sister" or while talking about fathers or mothers mentioning them time after time, do we use a definite article or are we supposed to use a possessive pronoun each time? e.g.

Ah, Philip, you are much luckier than I am with the search function!!! I guess some people just have the magic touch. Jim

I know you're joking about the , but I took the first one I found and verified your answer . Possessive adjectives or possessive pronouns?

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