Deeper Dive: her
Her pronoun or adjective [OE. hire, here, hir, hure, gen. and dat. sing., AS. hire, gen. and dat. sing. of héo she. from the same root as E. he. See He.] The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she;as, I saw her with her purse out.☞ The possessive her takes the form hers when the noun with which in agrees is not given, but implied.“And what his fortune wanted, hers could mend.” Dryden.
-- Webster's unabridged 1913
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