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Date: 2012-02-22 06:41 am (UTC)The bit you're confused about: "my" and company are possessive adjectives, because they describe nouns; "mine" et cetera are the actual pronouns. Functionally, it's not that they go after the thing owned, but that they stand in for an adjective-noun pair — "this cake is mine" means "this cake is my cake".
And don't worry about being confused by it — I did honours in linguistics and I still had to look it up.