Unit 1 - England - Crossing borders

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 1

What did you notice?

Explanation: Possessive Adjectives

Possessive adjectives: 

1. Used to show that something belongs to someone.

2. Used before nouns.

This is my house!

He is her father.

I	you	he	she	it	we	they
my	your	his	her	its	our	their

Possessive Pronouns

My birthday	His birthday is after mine .
Your dog	Is that dog yours ?
His CDs	Those CDs are his .
Her money	The money is all hers .
Its legs	Difference between its and it's
Our laptop	You can borrow ours .
Their friends	They introduced some friends of theirs .

We use the first row with possessive pronouns at the beginning of a noun phrase.

We use the second row without a noun following:

That is my coat. (coat is a noun)

That coat is mine. (no noun following)

The meaning is similar, but the words that follow (or don't) are different

Possessive adjectives & pronouns

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