English Grammar: Possessive Pronouns

A2–B1PronounsMarch 15, 2026

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hi everybody and welcome in this video

we're going to learn about possessive

pronouns okay and we use possessive

pronouns to show that something belongs

to us or something uh is owned by us

okay or someone else so let's take a

look at the board now last time we

learned about subjective pronouns and

here they are okay and in another video

we talked about possessive

adjectives and here they are okay and

over here are the possessive pronouns

that we're going to talk about in this

video now possessive adjectives and

possessive pronouns are the same they

show possession which means I own

something something belongs to me or to

someone else okay the only difference is

that they're used a little

differently for possessive adjectives

you have to put a noun after okay my dog

okay but for possessive pronouns you

don't have to put a noun after it okay

you can just say mine okay so let's go

through each

one my

mine okay and this is the same his

his okay for her her we say hers we add

an S

hers it's it's again it's the same your

yours we have to put an S

yours our

ours and their

theirs okay again I know that this can

be really confusing but let's practice

some more okay and let's move on to the

next part

okay let's practice together now this is

my marker but with possessive pronouns

you do not have to put a noun after okay

so I can say this is mine this isn't

yours this is mine okay let's look at

the board this boy has a hat so we say

this is his this isn't mine this isn't

yours this is his

is the girl has a dress this is hers

this isn't mine this isn't yours this is

hers okay now with its it's kind of

different okay you still have to put a

noun so you can't say this is its you

have to say this is its ball again this

is its ball this isn't mine this isn't

yours this is its ball okay now we have

two people who have a house this is

theirs this isn't mine this isn't yours

this is

theirs okay now over here we have some

books and we're going to say that they

belong to these two people okay so we're

going to use the plural B verb are okay

these are their

these aren't mine these aren't yours

these are

theirs okay and last we have a picture

of Korea okay this is

ours this is

ours okay let's move on to the next

part okay let's look at these examples

we have to put in some possessive

pronouns okay

that lipstick is M okay well we have the

noun lipstick and usually a girl or

woman wears lipstick so we're going to

use the possessive pronoun

hers okay that lipstick is

hers okay the next sentence that sports

car is hm okay again usually a man will

drive a sports car so we can say that

sports car

is

his okay now let's look at these last

two this money is mine not

yours this money is mine it belongs to

me it doesn't belong to you it's not

yours okay and the last one Toto is ours

it's Korea's right not theirs not Japan

okay it belongs to us so we say it's

ours okay so in this video we learned

possessive pronouns I hope you

understand and I'll see you in the next

video bye

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Learn possessive pronouns in English: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, and theirs.

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