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• The car in the front is mine.
• There are many keys here. Which of these are yours? 

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• a former colleague of mine 
• an old friend of hers 

        I met another colleague of … yesterday

                                a) hers (true)       b) her (false)

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• Whose book is this? 
• Whose is this book? 

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• It’s important to have a belief of one’s own. (NOT ……of one’s)

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• I’ve eaten my fish and the cat has eaten its fish too. (NOT ……and the cat has eaten its.)

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• 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. 

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• 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?

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• 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.

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• The soldier was wounded on the head.
• I suddenly turned back when someone tapped me on the shoulder.

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Possessive Case

a) ‘Possessive case’ is that possessive situation is used with nouns. In this case, it is added (‘s) suffix to the end of the nouns.

  The new manager‘s performance is not as satisfactory as we have expected.

b) If a noun is plural; that is there is (s) suffix at the end of the noun, it is only put (‘) . 

The boy‘s mother is in the living-room talking to her friend over their exam results.

c) If the noun is plural but irregular, it is put (‘s) suffix.

The children‘s parents started to be worried since they hadn’t been in sight for a long time.

d) (s) suffix may be found at the end of some proper nouns. In this case, possessive feature can be expresses both by being put (‘s) suffix to the end of the noun and by only being added (‘) suffix on condition that proper nouns pertain to.

Melis‘s (Melis’) ideas have attracted no attention in the department meeting.

e) Possessive feature always is given with ‘of’ at inanimate entities. However, ‘s is also used with organization names (company,firm …) or words such as Britain, Asia, town, world, city.

The pages of the book have been torn as it has been used for a long time as a reference book.

You need to change the colour of the room and choose a lighter one.

f) ‘s is also used with words and patterns besides time words.

I saw the ad in yesterday’s newspaper.

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Urbanization and globalization will be discussed in tomorrow’s session.

Never expect to be successful after just one hour’s study!

I felt myself completely numb and lazy after twelve hours’ sleep.

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• Have you taken your new torch with you?

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• It is John‘s book. = It is his book.
• They are my friends’ bikes. = They are their bikes.

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• A stone hit me on the head while I was passing by children’s playground.
• One of my friends had a terrible pain in the stomach yesterday.

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• One has an obligation to one’s friends. 
• Whose book is this?

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• I have lost my pen. (NOT …the my pen)

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• James has decorated his new house in such a way that its style charms everyone.    
• Peter and Sarah have decided to get married in the summer and they think that their wedding will be an unforgettable one.
• My friends and I are working for a charity and we donate some of our pocket money there.

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• I don’t need your trekking equipment; I’ve brought my own rope and helmet.
• You can’t find the chart in this computer as Mike wrote it on his own laptop.
• Dora has always longed for a house of her own/ her own house.

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• I can’t understand why she likes having a holiday on her own. (alone – by herself)
• It was a real success for the kids to clean the whole garage on their own. (without help – by themselves)

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