RE: Re: OT: "Gissa a Job!" & Location

["Steve Cooper" <steve.cooper@xxxxxxx>]

Just to clear this up so we can all sleep at night.

POSSESSIVE PRONOUN - refers to possession without support of a noun e.g.
"I
have my phone but want to use yours"  - YOURS in this instance is a
possessive pronoun as it refers to your phone but does not need to be
supported by the noun phone.  (The "my" in the sentence is a
pronoun
determiner but that is another issue).  Other possessive pronoun are things
like: mine, yours, hers, his, its

INDEFINITE PRONOUN - refers to someone or something in general e.g. anyone,
anything, - e.g. "Someone broke into my house"

"its" - is used in the possessive pronoun sense but can not be
indefinite
because in refers to a specific instance not a general group.

I'm not sure you can have a indefinite possessive pronoun.  Although I may
be wrong.

S



"Ian Lowe"
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Subject:     RE: [ukha_d] Re: OT: "Gissa a Job!" & Location
19/10/01 14:25
Please respond
to ukha_d






A CV is an advertisement, pure and simple.

If you decline to examine the best product for your business, and one
that could enhance your company in many ways, simply because you don't
like the colour scheme used, or find a typo in the advert, you are
somewhat missing the point!

Of Course, it could well be that Ian is actually recruiting someone to
write book reviews, or some other post where a command of English
grammar is actually *required* but for 99.99% of jobs in the country,
this is simply not the case.

I for one have no idea what an indefinite possessive is, perhaps because
by the time I studied English at High School (1983-1988), they had long
given up on any idea of teaching a Standard Grammar of the language, and
instead moved across to teaching purely English Literature.

As I recall, it was only when I had a deep discussion with a german guy
that I actually realised that there even *was* a formal grammar in
English.

Ian.



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