Are there any possessive pronouns in the following sentence? If so, where?: Their friendship goes back a very long time.
1 Answer
The pronoun in the sentence that shows possession is their.
Explanation:
The pronoun "their" is called a possessive adjective, a word that takes the place of a possessive noun.
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 "their" takes the place of the possessive form of the noun, for example:
-- Their friendship...
-- Jack and Jill's friendship...
-- The children's friendship...
The corresponding possessive pronoun is "theirs", which takes the place of the noun that belongs to someone or something, for example:
-- The friendship of theirs...
-- The friendship of the children...
The pronoun "theirs" takes the place of the noun "friendship".
