Everything about Possessive Pronoun totally explained
A
possessive pronoun is a
part of speech that attributes ownership to someone or something. Like all other
pronouns, it substitutes a
noun phrase and can prevent its repetition. For example, in the phrase, "These glasses are mine, not yours", the words "mine" and "yours" are possessive pronouns and stand for "my glasses" and "your glasses," respectively.
There are seven possessive pronouns in modern English:,,,,,, and, plus the obsolete possessive pronoun . The
clitic -'s also works as a possessive pronoun such as
John's.
For a more complete list, see the
full list of English pronouns.
Some languages have neither possessive pronouns nor
possessive adjectives, and express
possession by declining the
personal pronouns in the
genitive or
possessive case, or by using
possessive suffixes. In Finnish, for example,
minun ("I's"), means "mine" or "my".
Determinative and independent possessive pronouns
Some call possessive adjectives
determiners, and not pronouns. Others call them determinative possessive pronouns and call the possessive pronouns described above
independent possessive pronouns, because they constitute full noun sentence and don't depend on a
noun. For example, while
my must be followed by a noun such as
glasses in "my glasses",
mine already subsumes such a noun.
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