If a possessive pronouns is used as a possessive adjective, (…his book) is it still a pronoun and an adjective, or is it only an adjective and no longer a pronoun.
Hi,
To my simple mind a pronoun is a pronoun and an adjective is an adjective.
Alan
In that case, what is “which” here?
Which books?
How about here?
Mary was happy when I asked her.
Mary was happy when I asked her mother.
adjective pronoun = a pronoun behaving adjectivally. The form is pronoun and the function adjective.
Or:
- Adjective pronouns, words, primarily adjectives, [color=brown]which are classed as adjectives when they modify nouns, but as pronouns when they stand for nouns.
classiclit.about.com/library/bl- … onouns.htm
But:
“Hence these words are like adjectives used as nouns, which we have seen in such expressions as, “The dead are there;” that is, a word, in order to be an adjective pronoun, [color=brown]must not modify any word, expressed or understood. It must come under the requirement of pronouns, and stand for a noun.”
Same link.
Isn’t there a contradiction with the brown parts above?