Possessive Pronouns / Adjectives
Possessive Pronouns
• Possessive pronouns are used in English to avoid
repeating information.
Example:
This pencil is my pencil, not your pencil.
(Sounds repetitive)
This pencil is mine, not yours.
(Mine and yours are possessive pronouns)
• Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns
sometimes are confusing because most of them are
very similar in form.
Possessive adjective
Possessive Pronouns
My
Mine
Your
Yours
His
His
Her
Hers
Its
Its
Our
Ours
Their
Theirs
Meaning
mine
el mío / la mía
los míos / las mías
ours
el nuestro / la nuestra
los nuestros / las nuestras
yours (familiar)
el tuyo / la tuya
los tuyos / las tuyas
yours (familiar)
el vuestro / la vuestra
los vuestros / las vuestras
his, hers
el suyo / la suya
los suyos / las suyas
theirs
el suyo / la suya
los suyos / las suyas
Describes a
noun
Takes the
place of a
noun
Examples:
My house is big (MY is an adjective, describes the house )
Yours is small (YOURS is a pronoun, takes the place of noun
“house”)
Another easy way to remember how to use them :
Possessive Pronoun:
Possessive Adjective:
Possessive Adjective
+
Noun
My cat is small.
Her dog is black.
Their brother plays soccer.
Noun
+
Possessive Pronoun
The cat is mine.
The black dog is hers.
The car is ours.
Possessive adjectives go before
the noun and possessive
pronouns go after the noun.
Examples
• This is my table. >>>> POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE
• The table is mine.>>>> POSSESSIVE PRONOUN
• Is that your pencil?>>POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE
• Is that pencil yours?>>POSSESSIVE PRONOUN
• Look at these pictures. Mine is the big one. (subject
= My picture)
• I like your flowers. Do you like mine? (object = my
flowers)
Excersises: Fill in the blank with the correct
possessive adjective(my, your, his, her, its, our, their)
1. I like (I) ________ boots.
2. She lives with (she)_________ father.
3. I have (you)_____ book.
4. I know (they) ______ cousin.
5. She likes (he)______ shoes.
6. The teacher has (she)_________ homework.
7. I buy (we)_________ coffee every day.
8. He loves (she)_______ apple pie.
9. She wants (I)_________ money.
10. I like (Dave and Tanya) ________ car.
Fill in the blank with the correct
possessive Pronoun
1. I have a dog. That dog is________ !
2. She has a cat. That cat is _______ !
3. We have a car. That car is ____ !
4. They have a bike. That bike is _________ !
5. He has a key. That key is______ !
6. You have a hat. That hat is_________ !