In English communication, the use of possessive pronouns is very frequent. However, many students are still confused and confused between possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives. Let EnglishTopVN help you solve this problem
Possessive pronounare pronouns to indicate possession.
Listening to the definition above, it may be a bit difficult to understand. We just need to look at the following example to understand better:
Possessive pronouns include words mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs.
✎ NOTE: its is also a possessive pronoun but is extremely rarely used.
Subject
object
Comes after a preposition (in a prepositional phrase)
For example:
Subject: His car is expensive. Mine is cheap.
Object: He bought his car two years ago. I bought mine one month ago.
Comes after the preposition: I could deal with his problem easily but I don't know what to do with mine.
We need to pay attention to the distinction Possessive Adjectives (Possessive Determiners) and Possessive pronoun as follows:
Let's look at the following examples to understand the above difference.
For example:
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