Possessive determiners say who something belongs to, or who owns something.
Example:
Is this your bag?
No, my bag is green.
English has two forms of the possessive:
- my – mine
- your – yours
- his – his
- her – hers
- its – its
- our – ours
- your – yours
- their – theirs
We use the short form (my, your, our etc.) in front of the noun they belong to, and the long form (mine, yours, ours) when they stand alone.
NB: there are no apostrophes in these words.
Example:
This is their house.
This house is theirs.
I wonder if Jill took bag by mistake when she left.
bag is here, and I can’t see anywhere.
I’m not sure Jill has left. That is bike, isn’t it? I think it’s , anyway.
OK, so car is bigger than , but at least car is cleaner than .