Possessive pronouns
You learn to find the possessive pronoun: mine, yours, hers, ours or theirs.
How to do the test
- Find the word that says who owns something.
- Check what comes after it.
- If no noun follows, it is a possessive pronoun.
Tap the possessive pronoun. The red bike is mine.
- It shows who owns something and stands in for my bike.
- No noun comes after it, so it is a pronoun and not a determiner.
- Mine is the possessive pronoun.
More examples
Tap the possessive pronoun. The garden is ours.
- It shows who owns something and stands in for our garden.
- No noun comes after it, so it is a pronoun and not a determiner.
- Ours is the possessive pronoun.
Tap the possessive pronoun. The cake on the table is mine.
- It shows who owns something and stands in for my cake.
- No noun comes after it, so it is a pronoun and not a determiner.
- Mine is the possessive pronoun.