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Yes, but not to make them possessive; they're possessive already. 's meaning is or has is possible with mine. Mine's bigger and better than yours. Mine's been taken.CJ

"the answer is that you can't. Can you think of an example where you might?" The only time you would write an apostrophe with a possessive pronoun would be to indicate the contraction 's for is: That's not my jacket. Mine's over there. JJM

Hi, My understanding is that possesive nouns always get an apostrophe. It wouldn't look right to use an apostrophe with a possessive pronoun, but is the same true, do possesive pronouns ever get an apostrophe, or never? If you are asking whether you can ever say things like This...

In written English, possessive nouns are indicated by an apostrophe. I am not sure what you mean by possessive pronouns because the grammar books often get muddled here. These are what I consider possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his/hers/its, ours, theirs. No apostrophes are used. These I...

My understanding is that possesive nouns always get an apostrophe. It wouldn't look right to use an apostrophe with a possessive pronoun, but is the same true, do possesive pronouns ever get an apostrophe, or never?

.1.-- I would guess that there are several ways to approach this; here's mine: I - Subject got - verb used - predicate adjectiveto - preposition your - possessive adjective being - gerund (object of preposition) here - noun complement 2. Is 'used to' a prepositional verb?-- No, it...

Nouns are words that refer to something. car, desk, butter, person, rock, vinegar, pencil, pin, love, virtue, paper, book, ... They are most frequently used with articles a, an, the, or possessive adjectives. a car, my desk, the butter, a person, the rock, ... Adjectives are words that...

they are adjective pronouns.

Then you are saying that "one's" means both a possessive pronoun and "one is" ? e.g. One's not to blame.

Hoa Thai wrote: Avangi wrote: If I say, "Your car has a strange smell to it," is that genitive?Hi Avangi, By definition, as you might already know, a genitive case is expressed by the possessive of or a clitic 's. However, your car definitely has a distinctive possessive form where your is...