Possessive pronoun can be defined as “A possessive pronoun is a pronoun that can take the place of a noun phrase to show ownership”.
Explanation
Possessive pronoun is a pronoun which shows ownership to someone or something in the sentence.
Possessive pronouns can substitute a noun phrase in order to prevent the repetition of a noun in the sentence.
Examples of possessive pronouns are like my, your, mine, his, yours, her, its, hers, our, their, theirs, ours, whose, etc.
For Example
Generally, we make a mistake of using apostrophe in the possessive pronoun words. But, it needs to remember that, possessive pronouns never use apostrophes. We should be very clear that whether we should use apostrophe or not.
We should avoid making such mistakes while using possessive nouns in the sentence. The words like her’s, their’s, our’s, it’s, etc are not possessive nouns. We use possessive nouns without the apostrophes.
There are various weak possessive pronouns (also called as possessive determiners) used as determiners before the nouns (such as “My pen is broken”).
Examples of weak possessive pronouns are my, his, your, its, our, her, and their. There are some strong or absolute possessive pronouns also which are stand on their own such as mine, his, yours, its, ours, hers, and theirs.
We have provided below some exercises in order to help you to improve your knowledge about possessive pronoun.
You need to get detail information about possessive pronoun provided above and check your skill by doing following exercises.
Choose correct possessive pronouns from the following sentences given below and match with the given answer:
Answers: 1 – hers, 2 – mine, 3 – mine, 4 – yours, 5 – hers, 6 – ours, theirs, 7 – yours, 8 – theirs, 9 – yours, 10 – Mine, 11 – hers, 12 – hers, mine, 13 – hers, 14 – yours, 15 – theirs.
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Pronoun
Personal Pronoun
Compound Personal Pronoun
Demonstrative Pronoun
Indefinite Pronoun
Distributive Pronoun
Reciprocal Pronoun
Relative Pronoun
Interrogative Pronoun