P7-d Add -’s to form the possessive of an indefinite pronoun but not a personal pronoun.

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P7-d Add -’s to form the possessive of an indefinite pronoun but not a personal pronoun.

indefinite pronoun A pronoun that does not refer to a particular person or object, such as all, anybody, anywhere, each, enough, every, everyone, everything, one, somebody, something, either, more, most, neither, none, and nobody.

personal pronoun A pronoun that refers to a specific person or object and changes form depending on its function in a sentence, such as I, me, my, we, us, and our.

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The possessive forms of personal pronouns, however, do not have apostrophes: my, mine, your, yours, hers, his, its, our, ours, their, theirs.

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