Which part of speech is this?

[pragati]

in the sentence "This is my cellphone" which part of speech is "my"?

[Harry Smith]

in the sentence "This is my cellphone" which part of speech is "my"?

Possessive pronoun! My..., your..., his(her,its)..., our..., their... are the possessive pronouns

[Ben_Adam]

And it is not a part of the speech, it is a function of a sentence..

[Tdol]

I can't agree here; some people call it a possessive adjective, while others say it is a determiner.

[Harry Smith]

I can't agree here; some people call it a possessive adjective, while others say it is a determiner.

Yes, so many people so many points of view. Anyway I think the role of possessive pronouns is mainly that of a determiner.

[Ben_Adam]

Um... Function and word type... ol

[Casiopea]

in the sentence "This is my cellphone" which part of speech is "my"?

To sum up all the great answers, every word has a form and a function. My is a possessive pronoun in form (that's its word class) and a possessive adjective in function (that's what it does in the sentence). Now, a possessive adjective determines, as in defines the noun it modifies, which makes it also a determiner in function.

In short, you'd be right in saying that my is a possessive pronoun and a possessive adjective. One's its form, the other its function.


All the best.

[pragati]

thanks 4 ur rply dis is sumthng new 4 me.i hvnt studied abt possessive pronouns