Personal pronouns
I think that possessive adjectives are adjectives only.
Why in English they consider them a type of pronoun?What is the logic behind that?
In this sentence ''It is his car'' ''his'' doesn't sound personal to me at all! Yet it is a personal pronoun!

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Personal pronouns
I think that possessive adjectives are adjectives only.
Why in English they consider them a type of pronoun?What is the logic behind that?
In this sentence ''It is his car''  ''his'' doesn't sound personal to me at all! Yet it is a personal pronoun!

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Michael's reference is excellent.  The description is brief and correct.

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Thanks Mary,but If I say ''that is Mary's car''...then that is not personal!(it belongs to you and not to me)
I have also seen somewhere that there are 2 kinds of personal pronouns(subjective and objective)so possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns can't be personal pronouns.

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It is called a personal pronoun because the car belongs to him.  If this is my cup, it is personalized because it belongs to me and is not just a cup in general.

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This explanation might help you, if you'd like to look through it :) http://www.softschools.com/examples/grammar/possessive_adjectives_versus_possessive_pronouns_examples/82/

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