Question #149bd
2 Answers
No, it isn't.
Explanation:
Vobaculary
- Noun: a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Adjective: a modifier for a noun, gives more information about the noun
- Verb: an action
- Adverb: describes the verb/action
- Preposition: shows relationship between two things
- Pronoun: takes place of a noun
Lets start out by figuring out which simple part of speech "my" is. I use the term "simple" because these part of speeches branch off into plenty of other little topics, like for pronouns: relative, possessive, demonstrative, indefinite, subjective, objective, reflexive... but let's see if "my" is even a pronoun! Try to relate the definition of the part of speech to "my." I'll even give a sentence to help, "It is my book." So, What is "my" doing?
Is "my" functioning as a thing? Reput the word in the sentence so it tries to function as that part of speech to figure it out. Hmm... I want to buy that my. Nope, that doesn't make sense! "my" isn't a thing. Next one on the list is Adj. Modifies a noun. Does "my" describe anything? I believe it does. "My" describes book, signaling which book is mine, thus answering, "Which one?" We know and hold proof for this, so we need not to go through the rest.
It's not the end yet! We definitely know that it is not a noun, but for the curious people out there who probably want to know exactly what "my" is, Read this! I can't just list all of the adjectives in the world, so I'll give you three types and their definitions.
Vocabulary (Part 2)
- Article Adjectives: A, An, and The.
- Demonstrative Adjectives: This, That, These, and Those. Comes before a noun.
- Possessive Adjectives: shows who the noun belongs to.
Yes, there are also such thing as Demonstrative and Possessive Pronouns, so Good eye if you caught that!
No, the word "my" is not a noun.
The word "my" is a type of pronoun called a possessive adjective.
Explanation:
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
A possessive adjective is a pronoun that takes the place of a possessive noun.
A possessive adjective is placed before a noun to describe that noun as belonging to someone or something.
The possessive adjectives are: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
The possessive adjective "my" describes a noun as belonging to the person speaking.
