Possessive Pronoun Examples: Showing Ownership in Grammar

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🔑 Definition: Possessive pronouns indicate ownership. They show who or what something belongs to.
• ✅ Key Possessive Pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
• ⚠️ Important Note: Possessive pronouns replace nouns, while possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, its, our, their) modify nouns.
• 💡 Example: "That book is *mine*." (pronoun) vs. "That is *my* book." (adjective)
• 🎯 Usage: They are used to avoid repeating the noun and to make sentences more concise.

📝 Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following is a possessive pronoun?
   1. A. My
   2. B. Mine
   3. C. Me
   4. D. I
2. The car is _____. (belonging to her)
   1. A. her
   2. B. hers
   3. C. she
   4. D. herself
3. _____ house is bigger than yours. (belonging to us)
   1. A. Our
   2. B. Ours
   3. C. We
   4. D. Us
4. That pen is not _____. (belonging to him)
   1. A. he
   2. B. him
   3. C. his
   4. D. himself
5. Is this book _____
   1. A. your
   2. B. yours
   3. C. you
   4. D. yourself
6. The cat licked _____ paw. (belonging to it)
   1. A. it
   2. B. its
   3. C. it's
   4. D. itself
7. Those toys are _____. (belonging to them)
   1. A. them
   2. B. their
   3. C. theirs
   4. D. they're