Identify the kind of pronoun underlined in the sentence:
My phone’s battery died on the bus, so Priya let me use hers to call home.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Possessive pronoun
Here “hers” means Priya’s phone. It takes the place of “her phone”.
| Option | Form and use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Personal pronoun | stands for a particular person or thing, such as she, her or it; “hers” does more: it shows that something belongs to her | She lives near the railway station. |
| (2) Reflexive pronoun | ends in -self or -selves and shows the action going back to the doer | Meena burnt herself on the hot pan. |
| (3) Possessive pronoun (answer) | shows belonging and stands alone, without a noun after it | The house with the green gate is ours. |
| (4) Demonstrative pronoun | points to something, such as this, that, these and those | These are the photos from our school trip. |