Possessive adjectives are special adjectives or Choose a possessive adjective that agrees in person,number, and gender with thepossessor noun, not the noun being possessed. Copyright ©2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. McGraw-Hill Higher Education is one of the many fine businesses of My mass spectrometer has a vacuum leak. [CompareThe mass spectrometer has a vacuum leak.]Unacceptable
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, wasborn on May 12, 1910 in Cairo, Egypt. His father had studiedancient history at Oxford University. [The possessive adjective, his, should agree with the gender of thepossessor, Dorothy Crowfoot (feminine), not the possessed noun, father(masculine).]Acceptable
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, wasborn on May 12, 1910 in Cairo, Egypt. Her father had studiedancient history at Oxford University.
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