In English, possessive words or phrases exist for nouns and most pronouns, as well as some noun phrases. These can play the roles of determiners (also...

a substantive possessive pronoun, a possessive pronoun or an absolute pronoun. Some languages, including English, also have possessive forms derived from...

-s) the English possessive morpheme "'s" (apostrophe alone after a regular plural affix, giving -s' as the standard mark for plural + possessive). Practice...

Possessive determiners are determiners which express possession. Some traditional grammars of English refer to them as possessive adjectives, though they...

For details see English possessive. As they are pronouns they cannot precede any noun. The basic personal pronouns of modern English are shown in the...

apostrophe is used in English to indicate what is, for historical reasons, misleadingly called the possessive case in the English language. This case was...

only by word order, by prepositions, and by the "Saxon genitive or English possessive" (-'s). Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are open classes – word...

survives in the -'s of the modern English possessive, but most of the other case endings disappeared in the Early Middle English period, including most of the...

possessive). Modern English is an example of a language that has a possessive case rather than a conventional genitive case. That is, Modern English indicates a...

adpositions (possessive suffixes, possessive adjectives). For example, English uses a possessive clitic, 's; a preposition, of; and adjectives, my, your, his,...

traditional name for the subjective case" O'Dwyer 2006: "English has subjective, objective and possessive cases." Greenbaum & Nelson 2002. Sweet 2014, p. 52:...

grammatical possessives Possessive case, a grammatical case used in possessive constructions in some languages Possessive determiner (or possessive adjective)...

just an apostrophe following a plural -s (see English possessive). The most commonly encountered possessive forms of the above pronouns are: one's, as in...

The Miss Possessive Tour is the upcoming fifth concert tour by Canadian singer Tate McRae. It will commence on March 18, 2025, in Mexico City, Mexico,...

Apostrophe Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, Grave Quotation marks in English, Possessive * Asterisk Asterism, Dagger Footnote ⁂ Asterism Dinkus, Therefore...

always considered to be a case; see English possessive § Status of the possessive as a grammatical case. Most English personal pronouns have five forms:...

most common kind of binary possessive class system, but it is not the only one. Some languages have more than two possessive classes. In Papua New Guinea...

In linguistics, a possessive affix (from Latin: affixum possessivum) is an affix (usually suffix or prefix) attached to a noun to indicate its possessor...

often associated with possessive forms. English has two sets of such forms: the possessive determiners (also called possessive adjectives) my, your, his...

instance, in the English possessive case, possessive marking ('s) appears on the dependent (the possessor), whereas in Hungarian possessive marking appears...

construction a friend of mine (meaning "someone who is my friend"). See English possessive for more details. The interrogative pronouns are who, whom, whose...

Old English case system in Modern English are in the forms of a few pronouns (such as I/me/mine, she/her, who/whom/whose) and in the possessive ending...

express its reference. Examples in English include articles (the and a), demonstratives (this, that), possessive determiners (my, their), and quantifiers...

mineral resources from the ground through a mine Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun Mining (military), digging under a fortified military position...

thine are used as possessive pronouns, as in it is thine and they were mine (not *they were my). From the early Early Modern English period up until the...

"Others" includes pronouns, possessives, articles, modal verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions. Languages portal Basic English Frequency analysis, the study...

'whose' as possessive determiner/adjective; see possessive and English possessive) "Whose do you like best?" (use of 'whose' as possessive pronoun) The...

which can be either singular or plural. Sub-types include personal and possessive pronouns, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relative...

semi-speakers tend not to use the dative as much. Many semi-speakers used the English possessive -'s. In contrast, Anabaptists in central Pennsylvania had almost completely...

The genitive (English possessive s) is expressed by the suffix -iŋ (the i is deleted after a vowel.) If the relationship is possessive, the possessor...