Possessive Pronouns

Possessive pronouns replace the nouns of the possessive adjectives: my, our, your, her, his, their. The possessive pronouns are mine, ours, yours, hers, his, its, theirs. The pronoun ‘who’ also has a possessive form, whose.

Example:

• I thought my bag was lost, but the one Kesrick found was mine. (Here, ‘mine’ refers to ‘my bag’)
• Their vacation will start next week. Ours is tomorrow. (Here, ‘ours’ refers to ‘our vacation’)
• Those four suitcases are ours.
• Is this yours?

You have to take either her car or theirs. Hers is better than theirs. (Here, ‘her’ is possessive adjective and ‘hers’ and ‘theirs’ are possessive pronouns which replaced ‘her car’ and ‘their car’)

Definition of Possessive Pronoun:

A possessive pronoun replaces a possessive adjective. The possessive adjectives are my, your, his, her, their, our, and its. The possessive pronouns are mine, his, hers, yours, hers, theirs, ours, and its.

Example Possessive Pronouns:

• The green balls are mine.
• The yellow balls are yours.
• The orange balls are hers.
• The while balls are his.
• The red bat is theirs.
• The blue bat is ours.
• Is this your book? That one is mine.
• Here is my book. Where’s yours?
• I left my bag here and he left his.
• We got our fruits. What about theirs?
• They got their meals. What about ours?  
• Can I borrow your pen? I lost mine.
• Why are you using my phone? Where is yours?
• I can’t find my bag. Can I take hers?