Object & possessive pronouns

English has three pronoun forms for each person, and each form does a different job in a sentence. Subject pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they) come before the verb and do the action: 'She reads every day.' Object pronouns (me, you, him, her, it, us, them) come after a verb or a preposition — they receive the action or follow words like 'for', 'with', 'to': 'The teacher helps us'; 'This gift is for her.' Possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs) replace a noun and show that something belongs to someone — they stand alone and are NEVER followed by a noun: 'That bag is mine'; 'The red pencil is hers.' Do not confuse possessive pronouns (mine, yours…) with possessive adjectives (my, your…): a possessive adjective must be followed by a noun ('my bag'), while a possessive pronoun replaces the whole noun phrase ('Mine is on the table'). For example: 'I gave him the book, and he said the blue one is mine.'