Answer:
Determiner.
Explanation:
Determiners are words, most times pronouns placed before a noun, that qualifies/determines something about the noun placed after it or shows who possess it.
Pronouns (possessive) on the other hand do not require a noun after it.
Examples of determiners: the, this, some, your, my, enough, their, etc
Examples below:
- The teacher left some books on the shelf. Vs You can pick some later if you are interested.
(In the first sentence some books is explicit in qualifying the number of books while in the second sentence the word some replaces books)
- The closing deadline for the project is quite close. Have you completed yours?
( The placed before project determines that we are talking about the project while, yours is the possessive pronoun that replaces your project).
Therefore, These bagels are stale. These determines which bagels are stale followed by the word Bagels, a noun.
