Examples of Possessive Pronouns Showing Ownership

📚 Quick Study Guide

🔍 Possessive pronouns show ownership. They indicate who or what something belongs to.

💡 Common possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.

📝 Possessive pronouns replace possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, its, our, their) + noun.

📌 Example: This book is mine. (mine replaces 'my book')

🎓 They don't use apostrophes (unlike possessive nouns like 'John's').

👍 Note: 'Its' (possessive pronoun) is different from 'it's' (it is).

Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following sentences uses a possessive pronoun correctly?
   1. The cat licked it's paw.
   2. That toy is her's.
   3. The house is theirs.
   4. The dog wagged its' tail.
2. Whose pen is this? It is ____.
   1. your's
   2. yours
   3. youre
   4. your
3. That car is ____. We bought it last year.
   1. our's
   2. ours
   3. our
   4. ours'
4. The decision is finally ____ to make.
   1. mine
   2. min
   3. my
   4. mine's
5. Is this book ____, John?
   1. his'
   2. his
   3. hiss
   4. he's
6. The bird built ____ nest in the tree.
   1. it's
   2. its
   3. its'
   4. it
7. This idea was originally ____.
   1. there's
   2. theirs
   3. thers
   4. there