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They are possessive pronouns, but they aren’t used with nouns like possessive adjectives.
- The car in the front is mine.
- There are many keys here. Which of these are yours?
When I want to use a/an or this/that with possessive usages, “determiner+noun+of mine/yours/his/hers etc.” usage is used.
- a former colleague of mine
- an old friend of hers
➡ I met another colleague of … yesterday
a) hers (true) b) her (false)
While Turkish translate is done to give exact meaning, we use the usages “my, your etc.” instead of “mine, yours etc.”
The statement “whose” can be used with a noun or without the noun after itself.
- Whose book is this?
- Whose is this book?
The statement “one’s” is used without the noun after itself. Instead, “one’s own” usage is used.
- It’s important to have a belief of one’s own. (NOT ……of one’s)
The pronoun “its” is used without a noun after itself.
- I’ve eaten my fish and the cat has eaten its fish too. (NOT ……and the cat has eaten its.)
‘Possessive pronouns’ indicates who mentioned object belongs as ‘possessive adjectives’ . However, a noun isn’t used after them.
- A: My bike is broken. Can I borrow yours?
B: Why don’t you ask Dan?
A: I can’t use his as it is too big.
B: Ok. I can give you mine as long as you bring it back before dinner.
Possessive pronoun is used after the preposition “of” which is after the determiners like “a, some, many” .
- Casie is a neighbour of James’./She is a neighbour of his.
- Bob and Patrick called a friend of theirs to ask for money.
- At the end of the term we went on a picnic with a teacher of ours and had quite a nice time together.
- What do you think of this new haircut of mine?
In some cases, ‘object pronoun’ can be used instead of ‘possessive pronoun’ . But in this case, the meaning changes.
- My aunt showed me a few photographs of me, which she took in her own house.
- I showed my aunt some of the photographs of mine when I went to Long Lead.
Body organs aren’t used with ‘possessive adjectives’ in the cases as the examples given below; they are expressed with the determiner ‘the’ .
- The soldier was wounded on the head.
- I suddenly turned back when someone tapped me on the shoulder.
