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Possessive Pronouns

March 13, 2014 by Bret Tutor

Possessive Pronouns


My cake turned out great. Yours doesn’t taste right.

Possessive pronouns are used to refer to a specific person, people, thing, or things that belong to a person or group of people. Sometimes, a possessive pronoun can also refer to things that belong to other things or animals.
There are several different possessive pronouns. These words are chosen based on:

  • Number: mine is singular, ours is plural
  • Person: 1st person uses mine, 2nd person uses yours or 3rd person uses
    his or hers
  • Gender: males use his, females use hers

Below is a useful chart of possessive pronouns, with examples on how they can be used in sentences. Understand how each possessive pronoun can:

  • Be the object or subject.
  • Refer to a singular or plural noun that it stands for. This is referred to as the antecedent.
number person gender (of “owner”) possessive pronouns
singular 1st male/female mine
2nd male/female yours
3rd male his
female hers
plural 1st male/female ours
2nd male/female yours
3rd male/female/neuter theirs

Mine

  • This is a fast computer. Mine is slow. (subject = My computer)
  • Your dog seems friendly. How nice is mine?(object = my dog)

Yours

  • My cake turned out great. Yours doesn’t taste right. (object = your cake)
  • My TV stopped working. Yours is still on. (subject = Your TV)

His

  • His cat won a medal. (subject = his cat)
  • Bill drank his coffee, but Betty spilt hers. (object = her coffee)
  • Bill filed his taxes, but Betty forgot hers. (object = her taxes)

Ours

  • Your cookies were burnt. Ours turned out great. (subject = Our cookies)
  • Sally cut her grass. Ours still needs to be done. (subject = Our grass)

Theirs

  • This isn’t Betty and Bill’s photo album. Theirs has flowers on it. (subject = Their photo album)
  • Bill and Betty think their cookies are better than yours. What do you think of theirs? (object = their cookies)
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