![]() ![]() "Grow" is a verb! "Grow up" is a phrasal verb! "Grow" and "grow up" have different meanings! The words mine, yours, his, hers, its ours and theirs are possessive pronouns. The words my, your, his, her, its, our and their are possessive adjectives. In 'Syntax and Grammar of English Language' of P. Okay, we have 'our' as 'you' and 'I', but then the question is about using proper pronouns.Įnglish is not my mother language but I will tell you my opinion! But then this particular sentence is baffling me! Because I'm the speaker and the sentence includes my possession as well! 'yours' is used when the speaker refers to 'your things'. "The grandparents of yours and mine had grown up . . . " What if I use possessive pronoun 'yours' this way? Your grandparents + my grandparents = *Your and my grandparents had . . . * ![]() What confuses me is my own rule of breaking the sentence in two and decide what fits. ![]() These are possessive cases, but still I'm confused what to use and why? Yours and mine grandparents had grown . . . " Your and my grandparents had grown listening to this piece of music.īut then, as I read, it looked incorrect. While writing a line, I naturally wrote it in this way. I'm pretty clear about using subject or object version of pronouns. ![]()
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