What is the difference between personal and possessive pronouns?
Possessive pronouns are one of the four cases of personal pronouns, which also include subject pronouns, object pronouns, and reflexive pronouns.
The possessive pronouns (“mine,” “ours,” “yours,” “his,” “hers,” “theirs,” and “whose”) represent nouns that belong to people (e.g., Maria said that the ginger ale in the refrigerator is hers”).
Possessive pronouns can play any of the roles that nouns can play in sentences.
They’re sometimes confused with possessive adjectives (“my,” “our,” “your,” “his,” “her,” “its,” “their,” and “whose”), which modify nouns that go right after them in a sentence (e.g., “Maria asked us not to drink her ginger ale”).
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