00:00I have a book. This is my book. My is a possessive adjective. The book is mine. Mine
00:19is a possessive pronoun. What is a possessive pronoun and when do we use them?
00:30Look at this sentence. This book is my book, not your book. Here, the word book is repeated three times,
00:42so it sounds very repetitive. We already know we're talking about a book, so we can replace
00:52my book and your book with possessive pronouns. We can say this book is mine, not yours.
01:06Mine replaces my book. Yours replaces your book. Now, it doesn't sound repetitive. It sounds
01:22more natural. This book is mine, not yours. Mine and yours are possessive pronouns.
01:35A possessive pronoun replaces a possessive adjective plus noun to avoid repeating information that is
01:46already clear. Look at these sentences. This is my book. These are my books.
01:58In the second sentence, books is plural. Notice how the possessive adjective my does not change
02:10when it comes before a singular noun or plural noun. It is always the same. How can we change these
02:20sentences
02:20to include a possessive pronoun? They become, this is mine. These are mine. Again, you can see there is no
02:37change. Possessive pronouns. Possessive pronouns also only have one form. It doesn't matter if they refer to one
02:48thing or more things. They always remain the same. We cannot say, these are mine's. No, this is not correct.
03:01Let's compare sentences with possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns together.
03:10My shirt is green. The shirt is mine.
03:19Your book is new. The book is yours.
03:28His pillow is yours. His pillow is soft. The pillow is his.
03:38Her dog is small. The dog is hers.
03:46Its bone is old. There is no possessive pronoun for it.
03:54We don't use it. We don't use its as a possessive pronoun.
04:00Our bird is noisy. The bird is ours.
04:08Your house is big.
04:12The house is yours.
04:16Remember, your can be used to refer to one you or two.
04:25Your car is slow.
04:29Your car is slow.
04:30The car is theirs.
04:35Let's look at some more examples.
04:39Please give this dictionary to Susan.
04:42It is hers.
04:45What does hers refer to?
04:49In this case, hers refers to her dictionary.
04:56We can eat all of the food.
04:59It's ours.
05:01What does ours refer to?
05:05In this case, ours refers to our food.
05:14I found his passport, but not mine.
05:19What does mine refer to?
05:23In this case, mine means my passport.
05:32Are these Alice's keys or yours?
05:36What does yours refer to?
05:41In this case, yours refers to your keys.
05:49Excuse me, those seats are ours.
05:54What does ours refer to?
05:58In this case, ours refers to our seats.
06:06This is Jack's wallet, and I think this watch is his, too.
06:12What does his refer to?
06:17In this case, his refers to his watch.
06:24Possessive pronouns don't always go at the end of a sentence.
06:29They are also common near the beginning of a sentence, especially when you are answering
06:36a question.
06:39Are these your shoes?
06:41Here, mine refers to my shoes.
06:53Is this Vicky's dress?
06:57No, hers is black.
07:02Here, hers refers to her dress.
07:09Which bag is yours?
07:12Which bag is yours?
07:13Mine is the blue one.
07:16Notice how in the last example, there are two possessive pronouns, yours in the question
07:25and mine in the answer.
07:27Here, yours refers to your bag and mine refers to my bag.
07:41Let's practice.
07:43Complete the following sentences with the correct possessive pronoun.
07:48The answers will appear in five seconds.
07:58One.
08:00The gloves belong to Mary.
08:03They are hers.
08:07Two.
08:09Two.
08:10Their meals have arrived, but we are waiting for ours.
08:17Three.
08:20Those aren't my keys.
08:23Mine are in my pocket.
08:27Two.
08:29Four.
08:30Four.
08:30This book is yours.
08:32It has your name on it.
08:36Five.
08:38The house belongs to Jack and Jill.
08:41It is theirs.
08:46Six.
08:48Ange and I have a new car.
08:51It is ours.
08:577. Is this Philip's pen?
09:01No, it's not his.
09:068. It isn't my phone because mine is at home.
09:15I hope you found this English lesson about possessor pronouns useful.
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