Possessive Adjectives vs Possessive Pronouns

my/mine

1.Is this book yours or mine?

2.It's not for them: it's mine.

3.I broke my leg.

4.I am pleased with your company, as I make no doubt you are with mine.

5.You go your way and I'll go mine.

6.I invited him back to my flat for a coffee…

7. My God, I've never seen you so nervous...

your/yours

1.This bag is yours.

2.I saw a friend of yours.

3.A word of yours can save me.

4.You cannot alter your nature.

5.He can bring my book and yours.

6.The choice is yours.

7.I trust your opinion a great deal…

8.I left all of your messages on your desk...

9.It's no business of yours.

10. Yours sincerely, John Watson.

11.I'll take my coat upstairs. Shall I take yours, Roberta?…

12.I believe Paul was a friend of yours…

13.If yours is a high-stress job, it is important that you learn how to cope.

14.With best regards, Yours, George…

our/ours

1.This house is ours.

2. Ours is a large family.

3. We have made up our minds.

4.There are few strangers in a town like ours.

5.This chat of ours is strictly between us.

6.We're expecting our first baby...

7.Half the houses had been fitted with alarms and ours hadn’t.

8.We are all entirely responsible for our actions, and for our reactions.

their/theirs

1.These newspapers are theirs.

2.Parents keen to help their children.

3.They think everything is theirs.

4.Horses were poking their heads over their stall doors.

5.There was a big group of a dozen people at the table next to theirs.

her/hers

1.This dress is hers.

2.She loved her job.

3.A word of hers can save me.

4.This is my book, hers is on the table.

5.His hand as it shook hers was warm and firm…

6.He'd never seen eyes as green as hers...