My stepmother announced ____ and my father's plans to get divorced, which made the rest of the evening quite awkward.
Which of the following pronouns correctly completes the sentence above?

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For this example, we use the pronoun "her" because it is being used to show ownership over the plans to get divorced.
The pronoun "her" is a possessive pronoun that is used to show ownership. In the case of "her," it would be used to show some sort of ownership that someone has over something. In this case, we use "her" because it comes before the noun that the step-mother "owns." We would use "hers" if it were being used as a reference to something else rather than being directly next to the noun. For example, I quickly grabbed my bags and asked if she had hers.
The pronoun "she" is used to refer to the person who is the subject of a sentence. You can ask yourself, is the person the one doing the action in the sentence? Similarly, "she's" is a contraction that means "she is." Therefore, "she's" would only be used as the subject of a sentence as well.

My Stepmother Announced ____ and My Father's Plans to Get