MARCO SUCUPIRA LANGUAGE MATERIALS
FORM:
| Persons | P. Adjectives | P.Pronouns |
| 1st person (sing) | MY | MINE |
| 2nd person (sing) | YOUR | YOURS |
| 3rd person (sing) | HIS | HIS |
| HER | HERS | |
| ITS | ITS | |
| 1st person (plural) | OUR | OURS |
| 2nd person (plural) | YOUR | YOURS |
| 3rd person (plural) | THEIR | THEIRS |
AGREEMENT
OF POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
In English, possessive adjectives
change according to the gender and number
of the possessor.
The boys
have lost their pens.
The student does his
exercises.
A dog wags its tail when it is happy.
The woman cleans her
house.
Notice that the possessive adjective remains the same whether the thing possessed is singular or plural, masculine or feminine:
| her uncle | her uncles |
| her aunt | her aunts |
| her book | her books |
USE OF THE POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES AND POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS:
Possessive
adjectives always modify a noun so they
must be used together
with a noun or a noun equivalent:
Their
house is made of wood.
You take care of your things.
Possessive
pronouns do not modify a noun,
they are independent of any other word in the sentence. They are
used to replace possessive adjectives + nouns avoiding
repetitions.
Instead
of saying:
"That
car is my car." We say:
"That
car is mine."
Instead of
saying:
"This
book is her book. We say:
"This
book is hers."
REMARKS:
THE
"DOUBLE POSSESSIVE"
There is a pattern used with possessive pronouns, i.e.: of
+ possessive pronoun.
I saw a
friend of mine (not "a friend of
me").
A friend of mine/yours
means "one of my friends/one of your friends".
An aunt
of ours has just arrived.
Have you seen that dog of theirs?
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