Reflexive and Possessive Pronoun

Possessive Pronouns 

• We use them to talk about things that belong to a person. 
• No need to use apostrophe in possessive pronouns. 
• Possessive pronouns replace nouns in a sentence.  
• They help us show a noun’ possession. 
• There are two types of possessive pronouns, based on their quantity  

• This is her house.  
• Have you lost your wallet, Chris?  
• This bag is mine and that hat is hers. 
• The team won their 3^rd game this year.  
• I said that’s my umbrella.  
• It is her apartment.  
• It is their car.  

Note :  Here the noun is present. 

• My umbrella / Her apartment / their car 
• I said that umbrella was mine.  

Here we avoided using ‘my umbrella’. Otherwise, it would have been , ‘I said that umbrella was my umbrella’  

• She said that apartment was hers. (here we avoided using ‘her apartment’)  

More Examples 

• Those are my cookies. Those are not your cookies.  
• Those are my cookies. Those are not yours.  
• I didn’t have a book, so Martha lent me her book.  
• I didn’t have a book, so Martha lent me hers. 
• Your vacation  sounds just as great as my vacation.  
• Your vacation  sounds just as great as mine. 
• Your house is small, but not as small as our house.  
• Your house is small, but not as small as ours . 
• My coffeemaker isn’t working, can I borrow your coffeemaker?  
• My coffeemaker isn’t working, can I borrow yours? 

Reflexive Pronoun 

They are used when the action of the subject and object are the same. (thing / person /animal) 

• The puppy is licking himself.  

Here the reflexive pronouns is ‘himself’.  

This means that the subject has performed the action on itself) 

• The robot killed itself. 

More Examples 

Singular reflexive pronouns 

• Sean ate the sandwich all by himself. 
• Don’t worry/ I’ll do it by myself. 
• You will have to do this yourself. 
• She herself had no clue what was going on. 
• The robot was talking to itself 

Plural reflexive pronouns 

• We found ourselves in a tough situation. 
• They found themselves in a new land all of a sudden! 
• Children! You have to do this yourselves.