Not so fast, said Kevin Keegan, a high school journalism teacher in Silver Spring, Md. The pronoun “her,” he claimed, lacks a true antecedent. He said “her” can’t refer to the possessive case “Toni ...

Possessive pronoun must agree in gender and number with the noun in the phrase they replace. Each possessive pronoun must agree in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural) with ...

IT'S very well-established in English grammar that (1) the verb must always agree with the number — singular or plural — of the noun or pronoun that does or states the action, and that (2) the pronoun ...

Possessives shouldn’t be difficult. In many languages, they’re not. In French, for example, to talk about the car belonging to Robert, you just say “the car of Robert”: la voiture de Robert. Spanish ...

Last week in this column we talked about some difficult possessives. This week, Bill in Williamsport, Pa., builds on that discussion with a question about a possessive issue we didn’t cover: “Joe is a ...