In English we use possessive adjectives before the noun to say who something belongs to.

My book

Your book

His book (masculine singular)

Her book (feminine singular)

Its book (for singular things and singular animals)

MY/MINE YOUR/YOURS HIS/HIS HER/HERS

ITS/ITS OUR/OURS YOUR/YOURS(Pl) THEIR/THEIRS

Our book

Your (pl) book/s

Their book

We can say the following:

It’s my book or It’s mine (without the noun)

It’s your book or It’s yours

It’s his book or It’s his (if the book belongs to a masculine subject)

It’s her book or It’s hers (if the book belongs to a feminine subject)

It’s its book (not possible) but we can say: it’s its bone (referring to ‘of the dog’)

It’s our book or It’s ours

It’s your (pl) book or It’s yours

It’s their book or it’s theirs

MORE EXAMPLES,

Look at the Variation

It’s not my book. It’s his book or It’s John’s.

It’s John’s book. It’s his book or it’s his.

It’s not mine. It’s John’s.

It’s Jill’s book. It’s hers.

It’s her book. It’s Jill’s.

It’s Tom and Harry’s book. It’s theirs.

It’s their book. It’s Tom and Harry’s.

It’s mother’s book. It’s hers.

It’s her book. It’s mother’s.

It’s mother and father’s book. It’s theirs.

It’s their book. It’s mother and father’s.

They’re our books. They’re ours.

They’re their books. They’re theirs.

We ask the question

Whose book is it? Whose books are they?

Whose book is this? Whose books are these?

EXERCISE

Now do the following exercise

1. Whose mobile phone is this?

It’s not mine. It’s Paul’s or it’s ________.

2. Whose dictionary is this?

It’s Sally’s or it’s ________.

3. Whose pen is this?

It’s John and Mary’s pen or it’s ________.

4. Whose bag is this?

It’s my mother’s or it’s ________.

5. Whose dog is this?

It’s my dog or it’s ________.

6. Whose pencils are these?

They’re mine and Jane’s or they’re ________.

7. It’s not Maggie’s car. It’s ________. (Simon) or It’s ________.

8. It’s not Simon’s motorbike. It’s ________. (Maggie/brother) or It’s

________ .

9. It’s not Kevin’s bicycle. It’s (Karen) or it’s (sister) ________.

10. Karen’s not Mike’s sister. She’s (Kevin) ________ sister