Pronume posesive (mine, yours… theirs / a friend of mine)

Pronumele posesive arată așa (cele în bold):

Andrei, Alina și Louis merg în vacanță cu încă doi prieteni. La aeroport, își lasă bagajele pe jos, iar când să facă îmbarcarea, fiecare își strânge lucrurile și își caută bagajele. 

Studiază interacțiunile:

Andrei: Is this your bag? 
Louis: Yes, it’s mine. În loc de It’s my bag. (folosim pronumele posesiv ca să evităm repetarea substantivului)

Alina: Are these your shoes?
Andrei: No, they’re his. (arătând spre Louis) În loc de They’re Louis’s shoes.

Louis: Whose pens are these?
Alina: They’re theirs. (arătând spre cei doi prieteni) În loc de They’re their pens.

Adjectivul posesiv vine înaintea unui substantiv.

My coffee
Your coat
His cup
Her cat
Its toy
Our house
Their job

Dar pronumele posesiv înlocuiește adjectivul posesiv + substantivul ca să evităm repetarea substantivului.

– Is this your coat?
– Yes, it’s mine. În loc de It’s my coat. 

– Whose coat is it?
– It’s hers. În loc de It’s her coat.

It’s my phone → It’s mine
It’s your cat → It’s yours
This is his Coke → This is his
Those are her shoes → Those are hers
That’s its toy → NU zicem That’s its
These are our savings → These are ours
That’s their house → That’s theirs

Pronumele posesiv răspunde la întrebarea Whose?

Whose pen is it? 
It’s mine / yours / his / hers / ours / theirs.

Whose bag is this? Is it yours? În loc de Is it your bag?

Her dress is red. Mine is blue. În loc de My dress is blue.

its

its nu poate fi pronume posesiv, doar adjectiv posesiv și vine obligatoriu înaintea unui substantiv. 

Putem spune:
I did my homework and my friend did his. (în loc de his homework)

Dar nu putem spune:
I drank my milk and the cat drank its.

Spunem: 
I drank my milk and the cat drank its milk, too.

A friend of mine / a few friends of hers / some friends of theirs

Pronumele possessive se pot folosi și în următoarea structură:

determiner + noun + of + possessive pronoun
a                    friend     of    mine
a few             friends    of    hers
some             friends    of   theirs

Exemple:
Louis is a friend of mine. 
We met with Alina yesterday. We went out with a few friends of hers.
I went on vacation with my two neighbors and some friends of theirs.
I don’t like this idea of his. 
I hope this plan of yours works.

Exersează cu exerciții:
Pronume posesive (mine, yours, hers, etc.)
Pronume posesive (a friend of mine/yours/etc.)