The word “own” can function as an adjective, verb, or pronoun. As an adjective, it emphasizes possession; as a verb, it means to possess; and as a pronoun, it refers back to something previously mentioned. Writers use it to highlight individuality, belonging, and control. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “own” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Own
It would grow up to be a man, a human soul, with a personality all its own, a will of its own!
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
22 words, 94 characters
There was surely a saloon on the corner—perhaps on all four corners, and some in the middle of the block as well; and each one stretched out a hand to him—each one had a personality of its own, allurements unlike any other.
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
44 words, 225 characters
Schliemann called himself a “philosophic anarchist”; and he explained that an anarchist was one who believed that the end of human existence was the free development of every personality, unrestricted by laws save those of its own being.
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
38 words, 237 characters
He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the children with the same hearty good fellowship he displayed toward those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged; or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
64 words, 339 characters
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