Possessive Adjectives
- 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.
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").
Pratique este tópico com o AI English Tutor
AI English Tutor irá lhe ensinar a gramática e praticá-la com você em formato de conversação. Além disso, mais de 100 questões práticas sobre este tópico para consolidar sua compreensão.
Experimente ALULA gratuitamente em seu telefone ou tablet
Você tem alguma dúvida sobre esta lição? Pergunte na seção de comentários, abaixo.