Possessive adjectives & pronouns

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Possessive adjectives & pronouns

What does it mean?

This is my phone.

That is your book.

This is his shirt.

That is her book.

These are our bikes.

Those are your toys.

These are their chairs.

Possessive adjectives

=> to show something belongs to somebody

That's our house.

My car is very old.

=> for relations and friends

My mother is a doctor.

How old is your sister?

=> for parts of the body

He's broken his arm.

She is washing her hair.

I need to clean my teeth.

CAREFUL!

The possessive adjective its does not have an apostrophe ('):

=> That bird has broken its (NOT it's) wing.

(it's always means it is or it has.)

Fill in the gap:
That is ____ dog.

1. I
2. me
3. my
4. mine

Fill in the gap:
How old is ______ friend?

1. your
2. he
3. you
4. ours

Write a sentence with a possessive adjective.

De hoed is van mij.

Ben je aan het praten tegen mij?

Ik ben een man.

Dit is mijn hoed.

I am a man.

Are you talking to me?

This is my hat.

The hat is mine.

What is the difference?

I am a man.

Are you talking to me?

This is my hat.

The hat is mine.

What is the difference?

I am a man.

=> personal pronoun

Are you talking to me?

=> objective pronoun

This is my hat.

=> possessive adjective

The hat is mine.

=> possessive pronoun

This is my phone.

That is your book.

This is his shirt.

That is her book.

These are our bikes.

Those are your toys.

These are their chairs.

=> possessive adjective

The phone is mine.

The book is yours.

The shirt is his.

The book is hers.

The bikes are ours.

The toys are yours.

The chairs are theirs.

=> possessive pronouns

Fill in the gap:
The dog is ________.

1. you
2. her
3. my
4. mine

Fill in the gap:
The friend is ________.

1. yours
2. your
3. you
4. I

Write a sentence with a possessive pronoun.