In English grammar, a pronoun has a possessive antecedent if its antecedent (the noun that it refers to) 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: Winston Churchill's history shows him to have been a good writer. In the 1960s, some usage guides started to reject the use of possessive antecedents.
In English grammar, a pronoun has a possessive antecedent if its antecedent (the noun that it refers to) 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: Winston Churchill's history shows him to have been a good writer. In the 1960s, some usage guides started to reject the use of possessive antecedents.
Source: Wikipedia "Possessive antecedent" · CC BY-SA 4.0
Share this article: X · Bluesky