Example of Possessive Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
my / mai /
your / jɔː /
his / his /
her / həː /
its / its /
our / aʊə /
your / jɔː /
their / ðɛː /
Possessive Adjectives
Possessive adjectives are not independent words: my, your, her, our, your their, his and its must be followed by noun.
Examples of Possessive Adjectives
My car is here
Is this your car?
His favourite drink is juice.
Her mother is very nice lady.
This is our bus.
This is your car.
Their garden is nice place to have coffee.
Possessive Adjectives & Possessive Pronouns in a sentence:
Examples both forms in a sentence
This is his desk and this is mine.
Her car is red, but hers is blue.
I know your mother but I don’t know theirs.
She put her notebook on my desk.
Possessive adjectives my, yours, his, her, its, our, their are often used instead of the definite article before nouns denoting parts of our clothing or body.
Examples both forms in a sentence
Don’t keep your coat on.
Put on your hats boys.
She bit her lips .
He wash his hands.
The definite article, not the possessive adjective, is used if a part of the body does not belong to the subject of the sentence or the agent in passive sentences.
Examples
The arm is part of the human body.
I took my girlfriend by the hand.
The bully struck him on the head.
