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"Mine" is a special form possessive pronoun, used in modern English only when the possessive pronoun is separated from the noun it modifies by a verb form or by enough words to make the connection between the possessive pronoun and the noun that it modifies otherwise obscure. Examples: That is my book, and that pen is mine also. (separated by verb in the second independent clause) Her coat is red, but mine is blue. ("mine" is separated from the word it modifies, coat, by the three-word phrase "is red, but". All of the normal possessive case pronouns that do not end in the letter "s" have special form possessive pronouns of this type: yours, hers, ours, and theirs.

"Mine" can also be: a regular verb, meaning to extract naturally occurring minerals from the Earth; or a noun, meaning either a place where the activity of mining is or has been carried on or a type of weapon that triggers an explosion when touched by sufficient pressure. The noun can also be used as a "substantive adjective", as in the phrases "mine safety" or "mine gases".

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