Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns

Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns are used to show that something or someone belongs to someone.

Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns

Adjectives and possessive pronouns sometimes sound very similar. It can be easy to mix up.

The simplest explanation is that adjectives modify nouns or pronouns, and pronouns refer to nouns that were mentioned earlier in a sentence or paragraph. Possessive adjectives are used before a noun and possessive pronouns come after a noun.

Subject	Possessive Adjective	Possessive Pronoun
I	my	mine
You	was/were	yours
He	his	his
She	her	hers
It	its	its
We	our	ours
You	your	yours
They	their	theirs

There are two ways when I say this is possessive, either a possessive adjective or a possessive pronouns. Here are examples:

	Possessive  Adjective  Possessive  Pronoun This is my website. This website is mine. Is that your chair? Is that chair yours? He is playing his guitar The guitar is his. My hair is brown, Her hair is red. My hair is brown, hers is red. We are working on our website. The website is ours.

See: Definition of Pronouns in English

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References

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