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Originally Posted by Noego  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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They can be both because possessive pronouns come in two colours - determinative possessive pronouns and independent possessive pronouns.
It is worth remembering that parts of speech describe the way a word is used, not what a word is.