Possessive
Pronouns
Here are the possessive pronouns in English:
1st
person, singular -- mine
3rd
person, singular -- his, hers, its
1st
person, plural -- ours
2nd
person, sing./pl. -- yours
3rd
person, plural -- theirs
In
English, the gender and number of the possessor determines the
form of the possessive pronoun:
--I
have a bicycle. It's mine.
--They
have some bread. It's theirs.
NOTE:
Often the subject of the verb is not the person who owns the noun.
Be careful about this. You must know the gender and number of
the owner to be able to use possessive pronouns correctly:
--Are you driving his car or hers?
--We're driving hers.
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