| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| Some grammars give this name (others prefer the name independent genitives) to the pronoun forms mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, yours, and theirs, as in This book is mine. Her is possessive; hers, absolute possessive. His and its are both possessive and absolute possessive forms. Yourn, hisn, hern, ourn, and theirn are all Substandard Vulgar forms, and Substandard too are the Standard forms when they’re misspelled with an apostrophe inserted before the s (her’s, their’s). Compare ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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