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

Hi, " Looking forward to " must be followed by a noun phrase, so you might have (for instance): - a noun (I'm looking forward to your reply ) - a pronoun (I'm looking forward to it ) - a gerund (I'm looking forward to

Compound sentence consisting of two independent clauses. He bought a box of paints main clause and ( he) copied a magazine lithograph of a Japanese painting of Fujiyama. main clause Would you like to try first to do more

Rahul: (l) Yes, most grammarians say that the antecedent of "which" is "The police found the murder weapon"; however, a few don't know whether it is accurate to call "which made the prosecutor's job easier" an

Personally I just use what feels correct (for me) in each individual case. Same here. And nine times out of ten I make the agreement with the noun phrase immediately after "none of". I haven't introspected enough to be sure whether

"none of" is always followed by a noun phrase, not a verb It's usually followed by a noun phrase and a verb. "followed by" doesn't necessarily mean "immediately followed by". The last word of a sentence always

I have always known that after an indefinite pronoun, namely "everyone," "somebody" etc, the correct possessive pronoun to be used is "their." E.g.: Everyone should always do their best. However, the "Canadian

Frankly, I cannot work through all your analysis, but 1a and 1b are good, 2a is of course bad, and 2b is still find grammatically, as 'them' is the object of a preposition. Would you prefer that it read ' their idiomatic use and right

1) He was as handsome a young man as ever walked along the streets of London. 2) He is as handsome as the young man I don't understand the word order of the second sentence in the above. English has a pair of correlative conjunctions

In your original example about the suppliers, "this" (or, if you used it, "that") are demonstrative pronouns. They substitute for a noun or a noun phrase that has been specifically mentioned or is implied by context, or they