英语词汇grammar/british-grammar/pronouns-possessive-my-mine-your-yours-etc怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

We use pronouns to refer to possession and ‘belonging’. There are two types: possessive pronouns and possessive determiners. We use possessive determiners before a noun. We use possessive pronouns in place of a noun:

Is that[determiner]yourscarf? It’s very similar to[pronoun]mine.(It’s very similar to my scarf.)

That’s not[determiner]theirhouse.[pronoun]Theirshas got a red front door.

It was[determiner]hisfault not[pronoun]hers.

personal pronoun	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
I	my	mine
you(singular and plural)	your	yours
he	his	his
she	her	hers
it	its	its*
we	our	ours
they	their	theirs
one	one’s	one’s*

*We avoid usingitsandone’sas possessive pronouns except when we use them withown:

The house seemed asleep yet, as I have said, it had a life ofits own.

One doesn’t like to spend too much time onone’s own.

We don’tuse’safter possessive pronouns:

Are those gloveshers?

Not:Are those gloves her’s?

’sis not used with the possessive pronounits. It’smeans ‘it is’:

The team is proud ofitsability to perform consistently well.

Not: …proud of it’s ability…

We don’t use another determiner with a possessive determiner:

I’m going to getmyhair cut this afternoon.

Not: …get the my hair cut…

We don’t use possessive determiners on their own. They are always at the beginning of noun phrases:

That’s notmybook. It’syours.(orIt’syourbook.)

Not:It’s your.

We don’t use possessive pronouns before nouns:

Lots ofourfriends were at the party.

Not:Lots of ours friends…

Pronouns: possessive (my,mine,your,yours, etc.)

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