Question

Fill in the blank with a possessive pronoun from the alternatives given below:
They have bought his house. Now, it is ____
A) hers
B) its
C) his
D) theirs

Answer 1

Hint: Possessive pronouns are pronouns that help us show possession. For example- mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours.

Complete answer :
In the given question, the personal pronoun used in the sentence is ‘they’, and the possessive pronoun is ‘his’. Since they bought the house that was his, now, ‘they’ own the house.
Let us analyze the options given to us in this question:
1) Option (a), 'hers', is singular and is not the possessive pronoun form of ‘they’.
Example- ‘They have bought his house. Now, it is hers’ is incorrect as we need the possessive form of ‘they’.
2) Option (b), ‘its', is singular and is not the possessive pronoun form of ‘they’.
Example- ‘They have bought his house. Now, it is incorrect as we need the possessive form of ‘they’.
3) Option (c), ‘his', is singular and is not the possessive pronoun form of ‘they’.
Example- ‘They have bought his house. Now, it is his’ is incorrect as we need the possessive form of ‘they’.
4) Option (d), ‘theirs', is plural and is the possessive pronoun form of ‘they’.
Example- ‘They have bought his house. Now, it is theirs’ is correct as we need the possessive form of ‘they’.

Hence Option ‘D’ is the correct answer.

Note: In this question, do not confuse the answer to be ‘his’. Since ‘they’ bought the house, there is a transfer in possession of the house. So ‘his’ is incorrect.
Remember that personal pronouns are those pronouns which are associated with a grammatical person. For example, first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).