Can the particle "no" の be used at the beginning of the sentence?


In the sentence

> Watashi no hon.

Can the owner be omitted?

> No hon.




Nope.

One minor exception would be “finishing someone else’s sentence”, like

> 「やったのは誰？太郎？」  
>  「…の弟、ね」  
>  “ Who did it? Taro?”  
>  “...’s little brother, actually.”

But this is really only possible when the last word of the person you are
speaking to is the head of your sentence. It feels less like a grammatical
thing and more like a conversational trick.

