Words similar to possessive
Example sentences for: possessive
How can you use “possessive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
And thanks to those of you who wrote in about the double possessive in the salutation of the letters.
Slightly less possessive but equally curious visitors arrived, including the lovers George Sand and Frédéric Chopin, Archduke Louis Salvator of Austria, Anaïs Nin, and the poet Robert Graves.
Just below the happy nature's-bounty song promoted by REI lies the low hum of outdoor culture's ugliest trait, a possessive paranoia that keeps outsiders out and insiders in.
And if students are slipping structural cogs, we need a common language to communicate these problems: “John, you should use the possessive form before the gerund”, “Mary, try combining these two sentences by using an appositive.”
Even possessive pronouns present difficulty for some.
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