The shirt that I'm wearing is mine
(My shirt is red.)
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Yours is blue.
(Your shirt is blue)
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He's not wearing his.
(He's not wearing his shirt.)
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Hers is blue.
(Her shirt is blue.)
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The strawberry is red.
Its skin is red.
("Its" is hard to use as a possessive pronoun. It's often better to use the possessive adjective instead.)
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This is our website.
This website is ours.
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Those uniforms of yours look great.
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My dog is brown.
Theirs are gold.
Note: it's also possible to say, "Theirs is gold," if they have just one dog. A possessive pronoun is singular or plural depending on the antecent. An "antecedent" is the word or words to which the pronoun refers.
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понедельник, 30 марта 2015 г.
Possessive Pronouns
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