Notwen, you are right! My is a pronoun! Thank you for your help. You're welcome ! But I never said that 'my' had to be called a pronoun. On the contrary, it doesn't seem logical

High school students now have borrowed the c/o to indicate class of as in "c/o 2007". I regret this. It's much easier to have only one meaning. When words or abbreviations have different meanings, some people get confused. For

Hi Clive, Clive wrote: Do you think that the school administration would react favourably if a foreign teacher told them, and his or her students, that he disagreed with the school's books? I don't. That's why I didn't insist when my

Hi Tam, Tam Sadek wrote: I don't think I've ever read anywhere that 'my' is a possessive pronoun. This topic shows that only a minority calls 'my' a pronoun. I'm interested in trying to find where this habit comes from. The exercises where I

Hi Anonymous, I think Stefan gave the most precise argument to support the pronoun calling: it replaces I's , and if you forget the 's, it replaces a pronoun, which is similar to a noun... This explanation is a bit tricky, but it is sensible. On

Thank you, J Lewis, I understand. Sure, le mien / la mienne are equivalent to mine , and mon/ma/mes are equivalent to my . The point is that in French, nobody would call mon , ma or mes a pronoun. It seems, although it is criticized, that some

Sorry, I'm living in China and wikipedia isn't accessible, it is censored, then I can't read your link. But I'm still wondering what those sentences could mean : *Where is which book ? *Where is whose book ? Sure English is fun ! But if my

Hello everybody, Teo wrote: explain to her Thank you Teo Tam Sadek wrote: Where is my/the/that/which/whose book? Tam, I understand the sentence with my, the or that, which are definetely determiners, but what does the sentence mean

To summarize, at least two primary school teachers in my daughter's school and Ed here call my a pronoun. This seems enough to say that some native speakers use the word pronoun for my . On the other hand, apart from a few dictionnary entries,

It seems that native speakers as well as dictionnaries don't agree : some call my an adjective (or determiner, which is very similar), some call it a pronoun, even though it doesn't replace any noun. I would be glad to read other native speakers