Possessive pronouns show that something belongs to someone. The possessive pronouns are my, our, your, his, her, its, and their. There’s also an “independent” form of each of these pronouns: mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, and theirs. Possessive pronouns are never spelled with apostrophes.

A possessive pronoun is a word that replaces a noun (or a noun phrase) and shows ownership. The possessive pronouns are “mine,” “yours,” “his,” “hers,” “ours,” and “theirs.”

Possessive pronouns indicate the implied noun owns or possesses something. Typically, a possessive pronoun is used by itself, but it becomes a possessive adjective when used before a noun.

Possessive Pronouns: Used in Sentences

• The kids are yours and mine.
• The house is theirs and its paint is flaking.
• The money was really theirs for the taking.
• We shall finally have what is rightfully ours.
• Their mother gets along well with yours.
• What’s mine is yours, my friend.
• The dog is mine.
• The cat is yours.

A possessive noun shows ownership by adding an apostrophe, an “s,” or both. Possessive nouns can be either singular or plural. For example: This is my mother’s rose garden.

A possessive noun is a noun that possesses something—i.e., it has something. In most cases, a possessive noun is formed by adding an apostrophe +s to the noun, or if the noun is plural and already ends in s, only an apostrophe needs to be added.

Singular words, whether or not they end in s, are made possessive by adding an apostrophe + s. For plural words, we typically indicate possession simply by adding the apostrophe without an additional s. However, for a plural that does not end in an s (e.g., bacteria), we would add an apostrophe + s.

They are words that modify a noun to show a form of possession, a sense of belonging or ownership to a specific person, animal or thing. The possessive adjectives that are used in the English language are: my, your, our, its, her, his, and their; each one corresponds to a subject pronoun.

• Possessive Adjectives.
• (my, your, his, her, its, our, their)
• and Demonstrative Words.
• (this, that, these, those)

A possessive adjective is always followed by a noun. A possessive pronoun is used without a noun. Examples are: his, hers, yours, theirs, ours, mine etc.

Possessive adjectives In other words, they describe to whom something or someone belongs. In Irish , there are also words that show possession. They have the same role in Irish as they do in English as they show who has ownership over something or someone.

Possessive adjectives come before the noun they refer to. You use mon, ton and son with feminine singular nouns when the following word begins with a vowel. You also use them with most words beginning with h. Possessive adjectives are not normally used with parts of the body. Use le, la, l’ or les instead.

What is an urú ? An urú eclipses the start of the word, which changes the sound of the word just like a séimhiú does, but in a different way. In Irish this change is shown by adding a specific letter before the first consonant in the word.

Apostrophe Rules for Possessives

1. Use an apostrophe +”s” (‘s) to show that one person/thing owns or is a member of something.
2. Use an apostrophe after the “s” (s’) at the end of a plural noun to show possession.
3. If a plural noun doesn’t end in “s,” add an apostrophe + “s” to create the possessive form.