Posessive adjectives

Posessive adjectives

What Are Possessive Adjectives?

Posessive adjectives

• The possessive adjectives are my, your, his, her, its, our, their, and whose.

• A possessive adjective sits before a noun (or a pronoun) to show who or what owns it.

Examples

• My mother is working.

• Her car is read.

• Our house is a little bit far.

• She likes your hat.

in the examples below, the possessive adjectives are shaded and the nouns being modified are bold. The table also shows how each possessive adjective corresponds to a personal pronoun.

• I - My

• You- Your

• He-His

• She - Her

• It - Its

• We -Our

• They - Their

Multiple Choice

What is the posessive adjective of I

• My

• Mine

• Her