How ‘mine’ functions as pronoun, adjective, or determiner

By Jose A. Carillo

Aug 29, 2014 9:44 pm

This interesting grammar question was posted in Jose Carillo’s English Forum recently by John Johnson, a new member based in Russia:

“There is no doubt that ‘mine’ is a pronoun in ‘She is an old acquaintance of mine.’ But I am not so sure for ‘This table is mine.’ Is it a pronoun or adjective/determiner?”

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