There are two types of pronouns that show possession.
Possessive pronouns take the place of a noun that belongs to someone or something.
They are: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
Example: The house on the corner is mine.
Possessive adjectives describe a noun as belonging to someone or something. A possessive adjective is placed just before the noun it describes.
They are: my, your, his, her, their, its.
Example: My house is on the corner.
The possessive pronoun for the term possessive pronoun is its. Example:A possessive pronoun is useful because itsfunction is to show that a noun in a sentence belongs to something.
No, he is a subjective personal pronoun. The possessive pronoun that shows something belongs to a male is 'his'.
No, the pronoun 'it' is a personal pronoun, a word that takes the place of a noun for a specific thing.The possessive pronoun and possessive adjective is its (no apostrophe).Examples:The book was half price because its cover was torn. (possessive adjective)Its was the only one with a torn cover. (possessive pronoun)
"Theirs" is a possessive pronoun (also called a possessive adjective).
"She will never agree to that" is a complete sentence, and does not contain a possessive pronoun. If the sentence said, "Her cousin will never agree to that," then the word 'her' would be a possessive pronoun.
The possessive pronoun for the term possessive pronoun is its. Example:A possessive pronoun is useful because itsfunction is to show that a noun in a sentence belongs to something.
No, he is a subjective personal pronoun. The possessive pronoun that shows something belongs to a male is 'his'.
No, the pronoun 'it' is a personal pronoun, a word that takes the place of a noun for a specific thing.The possessive pronoun and possessive adjective is its (no apostrophe).Examples:The book was half price because its cover was torn. (possessive adjective)Its was the only one with a torn cover. (possessive pronoun)
"Theirs" is a possessive pronoun (also called a possessive adjective).
"She will never agree to that" is a complete sentence, and does not contain a possessive pronoun. If the sentence said, "Her cousin will never agree to that," then the word 'her' would be a possessive pronoun.
No, it is a possessive noun, which acts like a adjective. The related possessive adjective is her and the related possessive pronoun is hers.
"Your" is a possessive pronoun.Examples:Which son is yours? Yours = Possessive pronounYour son is tall. Your = possessive pronoun
The word 'his' is a personal pronoun, a possessive pronoun and a possessive adjective to show something belongs to a male.The possessive pronoun hers and the possessive adjective her show something belongs to a female.Examples:possessive pronoun: The house on the corner is his. The house on the opposite corner is hers.possessive adjective: His house is on the corner. Her house is on the opposite corner.
The pronouns have possessive forms of their own. They do not use an apostrophe for the possessive, as nouns do.
The possessive pronoun of "he" is "his."
The possessive pronoun for the personal pronoun 'they' is theirs.example: The house they own is theirs.A possessive pronoun takes the place of a noun that belongs to someone or something.The possessive adjective for the personal pronoun 'they' is their.example: They own their house.A possessive adjective is placed before a noun to show that the noun belongs to someone or something.
No. It is a possessive adjective, the possessive form of the pronoun "I" (belonging to me).