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...

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...

-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...

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...

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

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...

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...

The Miss Possessive Tour is the ongoing fifth concert tour and first arena tour by Canadian singer Tate McRae. It commenced on March 18, 2025, in Mexico...

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

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

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

2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or (though not in English) 1º, 2º, 3º, 4º). List of currency symbols currently in use List of logic...

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...

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...

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

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 Caribbean. Many language forms throughout the world use an unmarked possessive; it may here result from a simplification of grammatical structures. Example:...

"possessive" for nominative, oblique, and genitive pronouns. Modern English nouns exhibit only one inflection of the reference form: the possessive case...

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...

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...

plural, e.g. "Where are yous going?" Ye'r, Yisser or Yousser are the possessive forms. The verb mitch is very common in Ireland, indicating being truant...

a difference between subjects, direct objects, indirect objects and possessives by changing the form of the word—and/or its associated article—instead...

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

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

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