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nounthe case expressing ownership
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"possessive pronouns"adjectiveserving to express or indicate possession
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"small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys"adjectivedesirous of owning
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"a possessive parent"adjectivehaving or showing a desire to control or dominate
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Definition that contains possessive
- her The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she.
- ain belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
- own belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
- person a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
- whose The possessive case of who or which.
- behalf for someone's benefit (usually expressed as `in behalf' rather than `on behalf' and usually with a possessive)
- possessively in a possessive manner