Mine, yours, his, hers

Some words tell us who owns something. They are called possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs. Your book, Santoor, practises them on page 83.

Each one goes with a person. If a thing belongs to me, it is mine. If it belongs to you, it is yours. If it belongs to a boy or a man, it is his. If it belongs to a girl or a woman, it is hers. If it belongs to us, it is ours. If it belongs to other people, it is theirs.

Here are the book's sentences. These crayons belong to me, so they are mine. The toy train belongs to Mudit, so it is his. The house with the red roof belongs to my cousins, so it is theirs. The little girl bought bowls to play Jal Tarang, so the bowls are hers. We have a cow with large brown eyes, so the cow is ours. Things that belong to you are yours.

Notice that these words never need an apostrophe: we write 'yours', 'hers', 'ours' and 'theirs', not 'your's' or 'her's'.