POSSESSIVE

Possessive Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives

A possessive adjective  is used as an adjective and modifies a noun or a noun phrase.

Possessive Adjective 

For example

Is this your ice cream? This is his coffee.

For example

Welcome to my green house!

Her room is so cute.

For example

Those are our cupcakes. It is their cat.

The possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs) are used to indicate possession.

Possessive Pronoun

We use possessive pronouns to refer to a specific person/people or thing/things belonging to a person/people (and sometimes belonging to an animal/animals or thing/things).

We use possessive pronouns depending on:1. number: singular (eg: mine) or plural

(eg: ours)2. person: 1st person (eg: mine), 2nd person

(eg: yours) or 3rd person (eg: his)3. gender: male (his), female (hers)

Possessive Pronouns

Pronouns

Example of Possessive Pronoun

That is my car.

That car is mine.

The Difference between Possessive Adjective and Possessive Pronoun

Example of Possessive Pronoun

Look at these pictures. Mine is the big one. (subject = My picture) I like your flowers. Do you like mine? (object = my flowers)  I looked everywhere for your key. I found John's key but I couldn't

find yours. (object = your key) My flowers are dying. Yours are lovely. (subject = Your flowers)  All the essays were good but his was the best. (subject = his essay) John found his passport but Mary couldn't find hers. (object = her passport) John found his clothes but Mary couldn't find hers. (object = her clothes)  Here is your car. Ours is over there, where we left it. (subject = Our car) Your photos are good. Ours are terrible. (subject = Our photos)  Each couple's books are colour-coded. Yours are red. (subject = Your books) I don't like this family's garden but I like yours. (subject = your garden)  These aren't John and Mary's children. Theirs have black hair. (subject =

Their children)