What's yours is mine and what's mine's my own. (a favourite saying of my mother)
We saw in an earlier post how the apostrophe is used for possession. Note that the apostrophe for possession is only used for nouns.
These are the possessive adjectives - no apostrophes!
my
our
your
his
her
its
their
my book
your bike
his house
their car
And these are the possessive pronouns - still no apostrophes!!
mine
ours
ours
yours
his
hers
its
theirs
your friend and mine
my town and yours
hers is the white one
It's stands for "it is", see this earlier post
Similarly mine's in the adage at the beginning of this post stands for "mine is".
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