A pronoun indicating possession, for example mine, yours, hers, theirs.
〔语法〕所有格代词
Example sentencesExamples
This is my life, my form of sanity; note the possessive pronoun.
Another common mistake is to confuse it's and its, the former being a contraction of it is and the latter a possessive pronoun.
An ‘analogous expression’ would be a possessive pronoun followed by an evaluative adjective used as a noun, referring to a specific event or action.
The apostrophe is never used with possessive pronouns such as his, hers, its, ours, yours or theirs, except with ‘one’, eg. ‘One must do one's best’.
You'll be relieved to hear that we used no Anglo Saxon expletives in our reply - but we did point out that the possessive pronoun doesn't contain an apostrophe.
Definition of possessive pronoun in US English:
possessive pronoun
noun
Grammar
A pronoun indicating possession, for example mine, yours, hers, theirs.
〔语法〕所有格代词
Example sentencesExamples
Another common mistake is to confuse it's and its, the former being a contraction of it is and the latter a possessive pronoun.
This is my life, my form of sanity; note the possessive pronoun.
You'll be relieved to hear that we used no Anglo Saxon expletives in our reply - but we did point out that the possessive pronoun doesn't contain an apostrophe.
The apostrophe is never used with possessive pronouns such as his, hers, its, ours, yours or theirs, except with ‘one’, eg. ‘One must do one's best’.
An ‘analogous expression’ would be a possessive pronoun followed by an evaluative adjective used as a noun, referring to a specific event or action.