1 republic of uzbekistan ministry of higher and secondary specialised education

his
turn old Jolyon looked back at 
his
son. 
(Galsworthy). The absolute form of the possessive pronoun is used in 
the functions of the subject, predicative, attribute and object : I said 
that phone was 
mine 
(predicative
); 
I didn’t have
my textbook for 
English class, so Brian lent me 
his
(object) ; That’s not their house. 
Theirs 
has got a red front door( subject); I saw a 
friend
of yours
last 
night (attribute): absolute possessive pronoun used with the preposition 
of 
( 
a friend
of yours) 
preceded with the word modified performs the 
function of the attribute . 
In the Uzbek language the function of the English possessive 
pronouns (dependent forms) is performed by the nouns’ category of 
possession 
: my
book- kitob
im
; your book- kitob
ing
; his/her book –
kitob
i
; our book- kitob
imiz
; their book- kitob
lari
. Independent 
(absolute) forms of the English possessive pronouns’ function is 

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performed by the Uzbek personal pronoun with the form of possession 
–
niki: 
This book is yours niki
; This book is hersu
niki
; This book is oursniki
; This book is theirsular
niki
. 
Reciprocal pronouns
are the group-pronouns 
each other
and 
one 
another
used to indicate the two or more people are carrying out or 
have carried out an action of some type , with both receiving the 
benefits or consequences of that action simultaneously. When we want 
to refer to two people