Possessive pronouns | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

oh right grammarians let's get down to
it and start talking about possessive
pronouns possessive pronoun is a pronoun
that we use to show possession of
something which is just sort of a fancy
way of saying you have it
possession equals having stuff now we
can essentially divide possessive
pronouns in half because on this side of
the divide we have a list of pronouns
that behave like adjectives and on this
side we have a group of pronouns that
behave like nouns I'll list them and
then we'll give some examples so the
possessive pronoun that behaves like an
adjective for me is my the possessive
pronoun that behaves like a noun for me
is mine our behaves like an adjective
ours behaves like a noun your behaves
like an adjective
yours behaves like a noun her behaves
like an adjective
hers behaves like a noun his behaves
like an adjective
his behaves like a noun its behaves like
an adjective it's behaves like it down
and their behaves like an adjective and
theirs behaves like a noun now I'd like
to point out that nowhere in any of
these words does there appear such a
thing as an apostrophe that little guy I
know this much is true there are no
apostrophes in possessive pronouns so
it's not it's not ours it's ours like
that it's not yours with an apostrophe
like that it's yours with no apostrophe
likewise it's not hers his it's this is
the big one I mean something entirely
different
or there's across all varieties of
English the possessive pronouns don't
have any apostrophes in them so this is
a very handsome looking chart if I do
say so myself but it doesn't really do
the work of explaining what I mean by
saying my behaves like
an adjective and mine behaves like a
noun so let me get some example
sentences down and we'll see what I mean
so let's say that there was a book that
I owned how would I talk about it but I
could do it two different ways using
these possessive pronouns I could say
that is my book and here my is working
as an adjective that modifies and
describes book or I could say that book
is mine and here we're using is to
connect book to mine and so in that case
we're using mine as a now how do we know
it's acting like a noun because we can
use it independently of the word book so
if someone says to me David where is
your book I can say mine is on the
bedside table nowhere in this sentence
does the word book appear but we can use
mine independently because we've
established in a previous sentence to
the thing we're talking about is this
book so let's talk about my coworker
gireesh nice fella and let's say the
gireesh has a very nice hat we would say
that is garages hat this is what we'd
call a possessive now but talking of
Grisha again we could say that is his
hat and now we're using that possessive
pronoun as an adjective to modify hat
whose hat is it
it is his hat if we wanted to use the
personal pronoun that acted like a noun
we would say that hat is his and we can
also use his independently of the word
hat by saying by saying his is the Hat
with polka dots
so we've got two piles of possessive
pronouns here and one pile behaves like
adjectives my our you were her his it's
there and the other behaves like nouns
mine ours yours hers his it's theirs and
remember none of them contain an
apostrophe you can learn anything Dave
it out