My or Mine? Your or Yours? Learn the Difference in 2 minutes ll Angrezily Official

[00:00:00]What's the difference among all these words? My versus mine, our versus ours, your versus yours, their versus theirs, and her versus hers. Are they all possessive pronouns? No, no, no.

[00:00:16]These words are possessive adjectives, which are also called possessive determiners. Why? Because all these words take a noun after them, and we know very well adjective always takes a noun after it. So, these words are adjectives, that's why they always take a noun after them. And when we talk about these words, they are basically possessive pronouns because they don't take any noun after them. Instead, they are used in in the place of the noun.

[00:00:49]For example, this is my book.

[00:00:54]Have a look at my.

[00:00:57]Book is a noun.

[00:00:59]And my is used before noun. It means my here is giving the meaning of an adjective, that's why we'll say my is a possessive adjective or possessive determiner. Same is the case with our, your, their, and her. We can say this is our book, this is your book, this is their book, this is her book. All these words are possessive adjectives.

[00:01:25]The second example, this book is mine.

[00:01:28]There is no noun after mine, it means it has been used as a possessive pronoun.

[00:01:34]We can also use all these words instead of mine. For example, this book is ours, this book is yours, this book is theirs, this book is hers.

[00:01:46]So, these words never take a noun after them. Remember one more thing related to apostrophe.

[00:01:54]Our, never use apostrophe with our.

[00:01:57]Never use apostrophe with your. Never use apostrophe with theirs. Never use apostrophe with ours. All these words are always written without apostrophe.

[00:02:08]Thank you.