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Post by hanuman_2000 »

Sir,

It means can I write...

"It is excellent",She said.
"yours is excellent",She said.

Which one is correct?
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Post by Alan »

As stated, EITHER is grammatically possible, so both are correct in the most general sense! If, however, you mean 'correct' in the sense of 'the intended answer to your exercise' where the instruction is apparently to replace the noun phrase with an appropriate pronoun (or words to that effect), I would say 'it', and not 'yours', is certainly the 'correct' answer.

Time to bring this particular question to a close now, I think.
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