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Possessive Adjectives: The adjective which modifies the noun by attributing possession or characteristic feature to it is called a possessive adjective. This adjective shows who owns or possesses something. Instances of the same are: - my, your, his, her, its, our, their.

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 Possessive adjectives, also known as possessive determiners,[1] are a part of speech that modifies a noun by attributing possession (or other sense of belonging) to someone or something. In English, the words my, your and her are examples.

 

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 Possessive adjectives/determiners can eliminate repetition in a sentence by replacing adeterminer phrase (or in other analyses, a noun phrase). They allow us, for example, to say the girl took off her glasses instead of the girl took off the girl's glasses.

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Possessive adjectives, also known as possessive determiners, are a part of speech that modifies a noun by attributing possession (or other sense of belonging) to someone or something. In English, the words my, your and her are examples. 

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