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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