Possessive antecedent
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Possessive antecedent
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In English grammar, a pronoun has a possessive antecedent if its antecedent appears in the possessive case; for example, in the following sentence, Winston Churchill is a possessive antecedent, serving as it does as the antecedent for the pronoun him: In the 1960s, some usage guides started to reject the use of possessive antecedents. These guides argue that a pronoun's antecedent cannot be a noun in a possessive construct; in this case, they contend that Winston Churchill, embedded as it is in
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2020-10-18T15:00:04Z
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