By Pronouns, Possessives

Here are some examples The main point is to explain the correct answerThe sentences are little-bit childisch ;they are some modified sentences. I am afraid that my explanations seems to be a little childisch, too. So please help me how to turn it into the right explanation. Mary was real angry...

you're not youryou're means you areyour is a possessive pronoun!

1. Certainly not the native speakers that I come into contact with. There are only four Google hits for "do you take beef" in this sense, and none of them looks to be a reliable source of correct English. Instead I would say "Do you eat beef?" 2. You mean "it ......

Thanks, Mr Wordy and Philip. 1. Does it mean native speakers wouldn't say "Do you take beef?" What would you say instead? 2. It was gross. Though it brothered bothered me I just told myself they were hotdogs. (I expected you to correct the pronoun inconsistency in this line....

Hello Branwen319, welcome to English Forums! (Are there really 318 other Branwens here?)No comma is needed; "your" is a possessive pronoun, and "no" is an indefinite determiner (i.e. they're not adjectives). Two or more qualitative adjectives may be separated by a comma,...

The word laugh is either a noun or a verb, never an adjective or adverb. If it follows a possessive pronoun (which could be substituted with the definite article) it must be a noun. Words with the "ly" suffix are adverbial.

Hi LiJThis/that/these/those + a possessive pronoun or a possessive adjective, as some people call them, is wrong. Instead, say:This post of yours is interesting. That post of yours was interesting. These posts of yours are interesting. Those posts of yours were interesting.CheersCB

English really needs another pronoun for cases like this! Traditionally, if the gender was unknown, the masculine pronoun would be used. In a grammar book from 50 years ago, your examples would most certainly use "his." Today this would still be considered grammatically correct, but...

Friends,Please, when I use words such as "person, one, who" in a sentence - without knowing if it's a man or a woman - and I need to use a possessive adjective or pronoun, or an object pronoun, which should I use?Examples:- The one who had lost (his, her or its?) identification...

Your instinct is right--the phrase refers to "last year's figure" but the word "figure" is understood and so dropped. So grammatically the spelling should be year's. However, it has become common especially in conversationto drop the 's, and that has slipped into...