Possessive Adjectives

Personal de ALULA, Actualizado en August 18, 2023

  • Possessive adjectives show who or what owns something.
  • The possessive adjectives are: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
  • 'My' is used when something belongs to 'me', 'your' is used when something belongs to 'you', 'his' and 'her' are used when something belongs to 'he' or 'she'.
  • Please remember that possessive adjectives always go before a noun.

Possessive adjectives go before a noun to show who or what owns something. The possessive adjectives in English are: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.

Each subject pronoun has a corresponding possessive adjective.

Possessive adjectives chart

How to form a sentence

Put the possessive adjective before a noun.

Examples:

  • This is my book.

    Subject ("This") + be verb ("is") + possessive adjective ("my") + noun ("book").

  • Is this your bag?

    Be verb ("Is") + subject ("this") + possessive adjective ("your") + noun ("bag")?

Here are more examples.

Examples:

  • Is this your bag?

    "your" = possessive adjective. "bag" = noun.

  • Her shoes are blue.

    "Her" = possessive adjective. "shoes" = noun.

  • Their cars are old.

    Subject (Possessive adjective "Their" + noun "cars") + be verb ("are") + adjective ("old").

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