WHAT’s in a name? I’ve always been fascinated with how people uncannily become their names, and I remember writing about it ...

Yet the president’s use of the possessive pronoun can also go awry, as it ultimately did after Trump, spotting Gregory Cheadle, who is black, at a 2016 campaign rally California, shouted him out ...

Possessive pronouns in English are words like mine, your, her and their. Learn about possessive pronouns in Spanish with BBC Bitesize Spanish. For students between the ages of 14 and 16.

As for possessive pronouns like “its,” “whose” and “hers,” all you can do is remember that possession is incorporated into the word, so there’s no need for an apostrophe.

Possessive pronouns. In school, we heard over and over that a possessive takes an apostrophe. But the lesson about possessive pronouns doesn’t seem to get as much play.

We’re naturally possessive about our pronouns. But he acknowledges early on, “My positions on these matters do not stem from any ‘conservatism’ with which I am sometimes associated.” ...

We’re naturally possessive about our pronouns. But he acknowledges early on, “My positions on these matters do not stem from any ‘conservatism’ with which I am sometimes associated.” ...

The pronoun agreement comes into play when you add a possessive element to these sentences. "She types on her computer," and "they type on their computers." 12.