Are there any possessive pronouns in the following sentence? If so, where?: Her lecture was very interesting, especially since the subject was one of my favorites.
1 Answer
There are two pronouns in the sentence that show possession: her and my.
Explanation:
These pronouns are called possessive adjectives, words that take the place of possessive nouns.
The possessive adjectives are: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
A possessive pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun that belongs to someone or something.
The possessive pronouns are: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
The possessive adjective "her" takes the place of the possessive form of the noun, for example:
Ann's lecture was very interesting.
Her lecture was very interesting.
The corresponding possessive pronoun is "hers", which takes the place of the noun that belongs to "Ann", for example:
That lecture of hers was very interesting.
The pronoun "hers" takes the place of the noun "lecture".
