MNW English Grammar » Determiners » Possessives
Possessives
Possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives show who the thing belongs to.
| PERSON | ADJECTIVES | PRONOUNS | |
|
1st |
(I) |
my |
mine |
|
2nd |
(you) |
your |
yours |
|
3rd |
(he) |
his |
his |
|
(she) |
her |
hers | |
|
(it) |
it |
its | |
| Plural | |||
|
1st |
(we) |
our |
ours |
|
2nd |
(you) |
your |
yours |
|
3rd |
(they) |
their |
theirs |
NOTE: In English, possessive adjectives and pronouns refer to the possessor, not the object or person that is possessed.
Examples
- Jane's brother is married to John's sister.
- Her brother is married to his sister.
- Peter and his sister.
- Jane and her father.
- Do you know where your books are?
- Is this their picnic? No, it is ours.
- I think this is your passport. Yes, it is mine.
Other listening lessons
- Numbers: Ordinal and Cardinal, percentages
- Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns
- A few and few, a little and little
- Some and any
- Compound nouns made with SOME, ANY and NO
- Graded Quantifiers
- Enough + Noun
- Distributives - ALL, BOTH, HALF
- Distributives - EACH, EVERY, EITHER, NEITHER
- Difference words - OTHER, ANOTHER