Possessive Pronouns
- We use them to talk about things that belong to a person.
- No need to use apostrophe in possessive pronouns.
- Possessive pronouns replace nouns in a sentence.
- They help us show a noun’ possession.
- There are two types of possessive pronouns, based on their quantity

- This is her house.
- Have you lost your wallet, Chris?
- This bag is mine and that hat is hers.
- The team won their 3rd game this year.
- I said that’s my umbrella.
- It is her apartment.
- It is their car.
Note : Here the noun is present.
- My umbrella / Her apartment / their car
- I said that umbrella was mine.
Here we avoided using ‘my umbrella’. Otherwise, it would have been , ‘I said that umbrella was my umbrella’
- She said that apartment was hers. (here we avoided using ‘her apartment’)
More Examples
- Those are my cookies. Those are not your cookies.
- Those are my cookies. Those are not yours.
- I didn’t have a book, so Martha lent me her book.
- I didn’t have a book, so Martha lent me hers.
- Your vacation sounds just as great as my vacation.
- Your vacation sounds just as great as mine.
- Your house is small, but not as small as our house.
- Your house is small, but not as small as ours .
- My coffeemaker isn’t working, can I borrow your coffeemaker?
- My coffeemaker isn’t working, can I borrow yours?
Reflexive Pronoun
They are used when the action of the subject and object are the same. (thing / person /animal)
- The puppy is licking himself.
Here the reflexive pronouns is ‘himself’.
This means that the subject has performed the action on itself)
- The robot killed itself.
More Examples
Singular reflexive pronouns
- Sean ate the sandwich all by himself.
- Don’t worry/ I’ll do it by myself.
- You will have to do this yourself.
- She herself had no clue what was going on.
- The robot was talking to itself
Plural reflexive pronouns
- We found ourselves in a tough situation.
- They found themselves in a new land all of a sudden!
- Children! You have to do this yourselves.
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