What are Possessive Pronouns? Possessive pronouns are pronouns that show possession. Just like possessive nouns, they show when a noun owns another noun. For example, Jim’s pencil can be written as his pencil using possessive pronouns. Possessive pronouns are different from the subject and object pronouns we have already learned. Here are the possessive pronouns:my/mine your/yours his her/hers their/theirs our/ours its Notice that there are two forms of many of the possessive pronouns. We use th