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Default Possessive pronouns...

Ok.

According to “The good grammar” by Swan and Walter.

My, your, his, her, our, your, their

Are possessive pronouns.

According to Cambridge dictionary they are determiners.

Now how can those words can be both determiners (part of speech: adjectives) and personal pronoun (part of speech: personal pronoun)

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