By Apostrophes, Pronouns

Note where the apostrophes occur, and where they don't. The rows show the subject form, the object form, the possessive adjective form, and the possessive pronoun form, respectively. I you he she we they it Kate the child the boys me you him ...

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?

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

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Read each of the following short passages. Correct the mistakes by re-writing the sentence in the box. There are no correct sentences; each example has at least one error in it. Parts of the passage may be correct. You need only re-write the sentence that you are correcting in some way. Errors...

From The Elements of Style:Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write, Charles's friend Burns's poems the witch's malice Exceptions are the possessives of ancient proper names ending in -es and -is, the possessive...