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Possessive determiner
From Teflpedia
A possessive determiner is a determiner that marks possession.
English uses dependent possessive pronouns (i.e. my, your, his, her, its, our, their) as its possessive determiners. A little bit of contrastive analysis shows this to be an innovation in English. Most other related languages use possessive articles instead, which sometimes turn up in loan phrases within English language text. So, possessive determiner can be used as an umbrella term for both of these.
Possessive determiners are often described as “possessive adjectives” in pedagogical grammar. This is despite their not being adjectives.
