Possessive Adjectives
Adjectives describe or modify nouns and pronouns.
The motive of an adjective is to describe a noun or pronoun and provide more information about it.
- Possessive adjectives show ownership or relationship.
- Possessive adjectives, also known as possessive determiners, indicate whom an item belongs to.
- Possessive adjectives take the place of the definite article the, and state whom or what an item belongs to.
- The possessive adjectives are my, your, his, her, its, our, their, and whose.
- Possessive determiners are generally placed in front of the noun they modify.
- If the noun is modified by one or more other determiners, the possessive determiner is placed first.
- Possessive determiner corresponds with each personal pronoun.
- Possessive determiners are generally confused with possessive personal pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs).
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