Grammar: Possessive pronouns

Pronouns are divided into four classes: personal, possessive, relative, and interrogative.

Possessive pronouns

From A New English Grammar for Schools, by Thomas Harvey

They are: mine, thine, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs.

I. Possessive pronouns are words used to represent both the possessor and the thing possessed.

1. A possessive pronoun is not the possessive case of a personal pronoun, but a distinct form found only in the nominative and objective cases.

That is my book. (personal pronoun; possessive case)
That book is mine. (possessive pronoun)
Mine is the one on the table. (possessive pronoun)

2. For emphasis,

My own is used for mine; your own is used for yours; his own for his; her own for hers; their own for theirs.
Examples:
This book is my own
 Stand fast; the ground’s your own, my braves!
Each player should have a mitt of his own.

II. Order of parsing possessive pronouns

1. A pronoun, and why?
2. Possessive, and why?
3. What is its antecedent?
4. Gender, person, and number?
5. Case?

III. Models for parsing

That house of mine is rented.
“Mine” is a pronoun; possessive, because it represents both the possessor and the thing possessed; its antecedent is the name of the speaker; common gender, first person, singular number to agree with its antecedent; objective case, because it is the object of the preposition “of.”
That book is hers, not yours.
“Hers” is a pronoun; possessive, because it is equivalent to “her book.” “Her” is a personal pronoun in the possessive case, and “book” is a predicate nominative. “Yours” is a pronoun; possessive, because it is equivalent to “your book.” “Your” is a personal pronoun in the possessive case, and “book” is a predicate nominative.

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