Why can't I shorten 僕の好きな本は to 僕のは？


> 好きな本を教えてください。僕のは春の雪です。

got corrected to

> 好きな本を教えてください。僕の好きなのは春の雪です。

Why is it not possible to replace all of 好きな本 by の、given that the context
makes the intended meaning obvious?




You could have said 僕は春の雪です instead, although this is colloquial and some
teacher might still want to correct it, depending on their stance or your
level of Japanese. This type of sentence is sometimes referred to as うなぎ文
("eel sentence").

  * [Are possessive particles implied in a conversation?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/44053/5010)
  * [Overall syntax of this sentence](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/48986/5010)

僕のは is wrong because 僕の refers to a thing that belongs to 僕. 僕のは春の雪です would
sound like "My book is 春の雪."

