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The pronoun 'her' is a personal pronoun and a possessive adjective.
A personal pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun for a specific person or thing.
The personal pronouns are: I, you, we, he, she, it, me, us, him, her, they, them.
The personal pronoun 'her' takes the place of a noun for a female as the object of a verb or a preposition.
example: Yes, I know Charlotte, I met her at the party.
A possessive adjective is a word that is placed before a noun to show that noun belongs to a specific person or thing.
The possessive adjectives are: my, your, his, her, their, its.
example: I also met her sister Marjorie.
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JudyThe word 'hers' is a possessive pronoun, a word that takes the place of a noun that belongs to one female.
Example sentence: Jane made these cookies. Hers are the best.
Not to be confused with the possessive adjective 'her', which describes a noun belonging to a female.
A possessive adjective is placed just before the noun it describes.
Example: Jane made these. Her cookies are the best.
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