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own
used after a possessive
If you want to emphasize that something belongs or relates to a particular person or thing, you use own after a possessive.
These people have total confidence in ability.
Now experts support these claims.
‘own’ with a number
If you are also using a number, you put the number after own. You say, for example, ‘She had given the same advice to her own three children’. Don't say ‘She had given the same advice to her three own children’.
She was younger than my daughters.
‘of your own’
Don't use own after ‘an’. Don't say, for example, ‘I’ve got an own place'. You say ‘I’ve got my own place' or ‘I’ve got a place of my own'.
By this time Laura had got radio.
It's a clear lemonade with little flavour of its own.
emphasizing ‘own’
You can use very in front of own for emphasis.
We heard the prison's pop group.
Accountants have a language of their very own.
‘own’ without a noun
You can use own without a noun after it, when it is clear what you are talking about. However, there must always be a possessive in front of it.
These people's ideas were the same as .
I was given no clothes other than to wear.
‘on your own’
If you are on your own, you are alone.
She lived .
If you do something on your own, you do it without any help from anyone else.
We can't solve this problem on our own.

Forum discussions with the word(s) "own up" in the title:

About : own up to - English Only forum
Admit and Own up - English Only forum
better at licensing than putting up his own capital - English Only forum
brought ... up to the threshold of our own times - English Only forum
Confess to/ Own up to - English Only forum
confess/own up - English Only forum
disappear up one's own backside - English Only forum
done up in the foot of one of her own old stockings - English Only forum
He’s so wrapped up in his own immortal self - English Only forum
hoping by letting the Commonwealth blood to fill up his own veins - English Only forum
how I will fail to live up to my own expectations - English Only forum
I <have> set up my own business - English Only forum
I set up everything myself/ by myself / on my own / alone. - English Only forum
Idiom: to be growing a snake up your own sleeve - English Only forum
If you made it up from scratch today you'd be locked up for your own good. - English Only forum
jump up your own ass - English Only forum
keep one's own end up - English Only forum
make up / form your own opinion - English Only forum
make up your own mind which - English Only forum
make your own words up - English Only forum
on their own + by all + add up to - English Only forum
one day they get wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons - English Only forum
one of the few people willing to own up to what they did - English Only forum
Only if he doesn't get picked up by his own Wehrmacht first, - English Only forum
open (up) her own coffee shop - English Only forum
owe [own] up to your mistakes - English Only forum
Own up (to) it - English Only forum
own up (to) vs admit vs confess. - English Only forum
own up to - English Only forum
Own up to vs. Own it up - English Only forum
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