
The pronouns my, his, her, its, our, your, their have the meaning of possession. Syntactically, they modify nouns and may be syntactically equaled to the article: a car, my car, a (the) new car, my new car. Possessive pronouns have two forms, namely the dependent (or conjoint) form and the independent (or absolute) form. In positions characteristic of nouns, the possessive pronouns function in these specific independent forms: mine, his, hers, ours, theirs.
If there is a need to combine in a word group a possessive pronoun and some other nounal modifier, the possessive pronoun in the independent form is used in the postposition: a car of mine, that brother of yours.
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