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The word 'possessive' is a noun and an adjective.

The noun 'possessive' is a word for the case of nouns and pronouns expressing possession.

The adjective 'possessive' is a word used to describe a noun as showing the desire to possess or control someone or something; used to describe a word as the grammatical tense expressing possession.

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