Possessive Personal PronounsA possessive pronoun indicates that the pronoun is acting as a marker of possession and defines who owns a particular object or person. The possessive personal pronouns are "mine," "yours," "hers," "his," "its," "ours," and "theirs." Note that possessive personal pronouns are very similar to possessive adjectives like "my," "her," and "their."
In each of the following sentences, the highlighted word is a possessive personal pronoun:
The smallest gift is mine.Here the possessive pronoun "mine" functions as a subject complement.
This is yours.Here too the possessive pronoun "yours" functions as a subject complement.
His is on the kitchen counter.In this example, the possessive pronoun "his" acts as the subject of the sentence.
Theirs will be delivered tomorrow.In this sentence, the possessive pronoun "theirs" is the subject of the sentence.
Ours is the green one on the corner.Here too the possessive pronoun "ours" function as the subject of the sentence.
“Don’t strain your last surviving brain cell trying to figure this out “
No sweat. I’m actually sad it’s this easy. There is nothing really to “figure out” here since you are incorrect again on two fronts.
First, you again trapped yourself with the logical fallacy Ignoratio elenchi by using correct information, but which didn’t address the issue in question. This automatically disqualifies you from winning this argument so the rest of this post from here on out is just to point out how miserably you failed here.
The word I used was “your” not “yours”. It is a different word and is used differently in sentence structure to convey a different syntax. Here’s how…
“Your rant” means the rant is attributed to you. Since the word ‘rant’ is a verb, not a noun, it is impossible for ‘your’ in the context I used it to be a proNOUN (get it?) and is instead is a possessive determiner or adjective…something completely different than if I said ‘this rant is yours’ (which, by the way, wouldn’t make any sense whatsoever since you can’t have possession over a verb…it would be like saying this ‘leap’ is yours…but I digress and you are likely too stupid to understand or see the difference anyway)
Second (as if your first blunder wasn’t bad enough), the facts clearly show that YOU erroneously accused me of using the wrong grammatical form of the word ‘your’ and said it should have been ‘you’re’. You defended your accusations and lobbed pejoratives at me despite repeated factual rebuttals. Now you come back with some pointless crap concerning the context of the word “yours” I never used as if it somehow changed the facts and supported your argument. The addition of the “brain cell” comment in this case just makes you look even more idiotic.
If you wish to keep digging your own grave, keep it coming. I’m finding this amusing.