[Grammar] Can I put an indefinite article before a possessive noun?

[MikeNewYork]

You are not authorized to speak for "most grammarians". I am not even certain that "grammarian" has been defined to the level that you use the word.

 

[Matthew Wai]

'Functioning as an adjective' is not the same thing as 'being an adjective', so I wonder why Piscean said such things as 'make them adjectives' and 'transform them into adjectives' and why Weaver67 said 'absolutely equal'.

 

[bhaisahab]

At my time of life, it's great to know I can still bring wonder into people's lives.

;-)

:cheers:

 

[MikeNewYork]

But you did: "I can't, and have no wish to, stop people doing anything they wish. I am merely noting what most grammarians think."

 

[Rover_KE]

On that note, I declare the thread done and dusted.

 

[Tdol]

There is no transformation needed. It is based on function. And the function is clear to most of us.

Just to add one brief point to a closed thread, transformation and other ways of testing do offer clues to the form being tested.