{"id":74159,"date":"2020-04-20T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T10:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74159"},"modified":"2024-07-22T16:56:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T16:56:51","slug":"possessive-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/possessive-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Possessive Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are mainly two types of words expressing possession. They are possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possessive adjectives go before nouns. Examples are: <strong>my, his, her, your, their, our, its<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possessive pronouns stand on their own. Examples are:<strong> mine, his, hers, yours, theirs and ours<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>That is <strong>my<\/strong> book.<\/li><li>That book is <strong>mine.<\/strong><\/li><li>Which is <strong>your<\/strong> girl?<\/li><li>Which of these girls is <strong>yours?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Worksheet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Fill in the blanks with a possessive pronoun or adjective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>She doesn&#8217;t have a house of &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. own.<\/li><li>I don&#8217;t want you to tell him about &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. problems. (my \/ mine)<\/li><li>They have invited me to &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; party. (their \/ theirs)<\/li><li>You can&#8217;t blame me for &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. failure. (your \/ yours)<\/li><li>The responsibility is &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. (your \/ yours)<\/li><li>&#8216;It is &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. (your \/ yours) fault.&#8217; &#8216;No, it is &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (your \/ yours)&#8217;<\/li><li>Have you seen &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. (my \/ mine) wallet?<\/li><li>Is this wallet &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (your \/ yours)?<\/li><li> His hair is black. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. is turning white. (My \/ Mine)<\/li><li>I have lost my pen. Can you lend me &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (your \/ yours)?<\/li><li>I don&#8217;t need &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. (your \/ yours) advice.<\/li><li>I prefer &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (their \/ theirs) company to&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (your \/ yours)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>her, 2. my, 3. their, 4. your, 5. yours, 6. your, yours, 7. my, 8. yours, 9. mine, 10. yours, 11. your, 12. their, yours<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are mainly two types of words expressing possession. They are possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives. Possessive adjectives go before nouns. Examples are: my, his, her, your, their, our, its Possessive pronouns stand on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[323,2729,896],"class_list":["post-74159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-possessive-adjectives","tag-possessive-pronouns","tag-possessives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77869,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74159\/revisions\/77869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}