How to use possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives? For example, which is correct:
Is this your luggage?
or
Is this yours luggage?
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Sign up to join this communityHow to use possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives? For example, which is correct:
Is this your luggage?
or
Is this yours luggage?
My,your,his,her,its, our, their are possessive adjectives or dependent genitive pronouns used as determiners before nouns.
This is my book.
Mine,yours,his,hers,ours,theirs are possessive pronouns or independent genitive pronouns (thanks BillJ).They don't require nouns after them.
The book is mine. Is that car yours?
The first case is correct : "Is this your luggage"
'Yours' is a pronoun, so it should not be followed by a noun or noun phrase.
'Your' is a determiner and must be followed by a noun, completing a noun phrase.
"Your" always goes before the noun. Is this your luggage?
"Yours" always goes alone. Is this yours? or Is this luggage yours?