Tuesday, February 12, 2019

What possessive pronouns do have an apostrophe?



I was explaining it's vs. its to someone the other day, and I said "None of the pronouns (his, hers, theirs, yours, its, whose, ...) has an apostrophe." Later I got to wondering whether that was really true, and sure enough fairly quickly found one that does: one's, as in "One's memory isn't what it used to be."



Are there other pronouns that use an apostrophe?


Answer




Everybody's, everyone's, somebody's, someone's, anybody's, anyone's, nobody's, no one's.



EDIT:



And also the reciprocal pronouns: each other's, one another's.


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