{"id":57,"date":"2019-04-17T12:27:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/zyle\/?p=57"},"modified":"2021-03-23T04:57:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:57:34","slug":"possessive-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/grammar\/possessive-pronouns.htm","title":{"rendered":"Possessive pronouns &#8211; English grammar courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson, we will talk about special pronouns used in the English language to express the possession (ownership) of something. We are talking about possessive pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>The main possessive pronouns are:<\/p>\n<table width=\"605\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"301\"><strong>Possessive adjective<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"304\"><strong>Possessive pronouns<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"301\">My<\/p>\n<p>Your<\/p>\n<p>His<\/p>\n<p>Her<\/p>\n<p>Its<\/p>\n<p>Our<\/p>\n<p>Their<\/td>\n<td width=\"304\"><strong>Mine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Its<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Theirs<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at an example for each possessive pronoun:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This book is mine.<\/li>\n<li>This book right here is yours.<\/li>\n<li>Its color is different.<\/li>\n<li>This house is theirs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also use the word \u201cof\u201d with possessive pronouns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is a friend of ours.<\/li>\n<li>Did you see that dog of hers?<\/li>\n<li>I went to that house of his.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now let\u2019s look at longer sentences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am looking for our books. I found <strong>mine<\/strong>, but I couldn\u2019t find <strong>yours<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Can you give the key to the children? No, they have <strong>theirs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>I thought this car was <strong>his <\/strong>but it actually turned out to be <strong>hers!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more informations about the adjectives, click <a href=\"http:\/\/english.youlearnenglish.com\/grammar\/possessive-adjectives-my-your-his-her-our-yours.htm\">here<\/a> to see the possessive adjectives course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s do some exercises with what we have learned already. Fill in the blanks for these sentences using the following words: its, yours, ours, hers, theirs,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do you know the Jackson family? Which car is ____?<\/li>\n<li>This book is _____.<\/li>\n<li>I thought this was his but it was actually _____.<\/li>\n<li>I never knew ____ doors opened like that.<\/li>\n<li>That house over there is ____.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson, we will talk about special pronouns used in the English language to express the possession (ownership) of something. We are talking about possessive pronouns. The main possessive pronouns are: Possessive adjective Possessive pronouns My Your His Her Its Our Their Mine Yours His Hers Its Ours Theirs Let\u2019s look at an example &#8230; <a title=\"Possessive pronouns &#8211; English grammar courses\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/grammar\/possessive-pronouns.htm\" aria-label=\"Read more about Possessive pronouns &#8211; English grammar courses\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}