SUMMARY

WEEK 2
English 3

 A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a common noun or a

proper noun.

 The words mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours and theirs are

called possessive pronouns. They are used to substitute nouns to
show possession or ownership.

 Independent possessive pronouns (also called absolute possessive

pronouns) must be used without a noun.

 A possessive pronoun can act as a subject of a sentence.

 A possessive pronoun can act as a subject complement.

 A very common error is putting an apostrophe in the possessive

pronoun its. It is easy to confuse its with the contraction of it is, it’s,

which does have an apostrophe. Remember, though, possessive

pronouns never use apostrophes.