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Possessive Sentence Examples

  • He wondered if she felt as possessive of her art as he did his music.
  • The possessive pronoun follows the object.
  • Thus, in Fijian the word luve means either a son or a daughter - one s own child, and it takes the possessive pronoun suffixed, as luvena; but the word ngone, a child, but not necessarily one's own child, takes the possessive pronoun before it, as nona ngone, his child, i.e.
  • "Josh was always so possessive about her," Mrs. Reynolds continued, shaking her head.
  • He grew more controlling as the days progressed, more possessive and erratic.
  • He returned her gaze, steadying her with a possessive hand on her hip.
  • He met her gaze, and her body bloomed with warmth in response to the possessive gaze that swept over her from head to foot before his eyes settled on the demon.
  • "He is possessive," Dulce amended.
  • Well, he is possessive – and moody.
  • She yielded, fitting against him in a way that made him more possessive of her petite frame and fiery spirit.
  • " will be," &c.), with the object and its possessive affixes, e.g.
  • Personal pronouns: i (dii), yos (illos); possessive pronouns: mi, pl.
  • His arm draped across her shoulder in a tender but possessive way.
  • Olmosy Kdroly tandr ur, " Mr Professor Charles (lmosy "; and the possessive forms of the nouns, which are varied according to the number and person of the possessor and the number of the object in the following way: tollam, " my pen "; tollaim, " my pens "; tollad, " thy pen tollaid, thy pens tollunk, our pen tollaink, our pens," &c. There is no gender, not even a distinction between " he," " she," and " it," in the personal pronouns, and the declension is less developed than in Finnish.
  • As regards the pronoun, mention must be made of the non-etymological forms of the personal rn/rn and of the feminine possessive minha, where the second n has been brought in by the initial nasal.
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  • possessival
  • eirs
  • nonpossessive
  • double genitive
  • unpossessive
  • possessive-case
  • hirs
  • thors
  • hers
  • y-all-s

WORDS NEAR possessive IN THE DICTIONARY


  • possessionless
  • possessionlessness
  • possessions
  • possessival
  • possessive
  • possessive adjective
  • possessive-adjective
  • possessive-adjectives
  • possessive-case
  • possessive-cases
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