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His vs Hes - What's the difference?

his | hes |

Hes is a alternative form of his.



As determiners the difference between his and hes

is that his is belonging to him while hes is alternative form of his when pronounced as he's; belonging to him.

As pronouns the difference between his and hes

is that his is that which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun while hes is alternative form of lang=en when pronounced as he's; that that belongs to him.

As a contraction hes is

alternative form of he's|lang=en.

his

English

(wikipedia his)

Determiner

  • Belonging to him.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:
  • With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his' man would be there with a message to say that ' his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.}}
  • * 2011 , Xan Rice, The Guardian , 8 Apr 2011:
  • In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians.
  • (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
  • *, II.2:
  • My stomacke could not well reach so farre: it is very much troubled to come to an end of that which it takes for his need.
  • * 1611 , Matthew 5:13, King James Version:
  • Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
  • (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s'' after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in ''-s , to express the possessive case.
  • Ahab his mark'' for ''Ahab's mark .

    Usage notes

    * When followed by a noun, it is sometimes referred to as a possessive adjective , qualifying the following noun. It is, however, the possessive case of the personal pronoun he.

    Pronoun

  • That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
  • The decision was his to live with.
  • See also

    * he * her * hers * him * hisn

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    hes

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alternative spelling of his.

    Alternative forms

    * he's * his

    Determiner

  • (his) when pronounced as he's ; belonging to him.
  • Pronoun

  • when pronounced as he's ; that that belongs to him.
  • Usage notes

    Used in some dialects to represent the (often only occasional) pronunciation of his'' as ''he's'' as both a determiner and a pronoun. Although ''his'' is almost always used, regardless of pronunciation, hes and ''he's are sometimes used.

    Etymology 2

    From he's via a reduction of the apostrophe which is, in turn, a contraction of he is and he has.

    Contraction

    (en-cont)
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