Possessive pronouns and adjectives

Mexican students generally find difficult the use of possessives and they tend to make mistakes such as:

"Michael has a dog, your dog is a Schnawzer (your instead of HIS)"

The solution?... Study and practise!

Using Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives

A possessive adjective is usually used to describe a noun, and it comes before it, like other adjectives.

My car is bigger than her car.

My name is John and his name is Dany.

A possessive pronoun is used instead of ("en lugar de") a noun. We use pronouns to avoid repeating information that is already clear.

Julie's car is red. Mine is blue.

In this example Mine is a possessive pronoun that replaces my car.

Forms of Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives

Person	Pronoun	Adjective
1st singular	mine	my
2nd	yours	your
3rd (female)	hers	her
3rd (male)	his	his
3rd (neutral)	its	its
1st plural	ours	our
3rd plural	theirs	their

QUIZZES

Possessive adjectives

http://a4esl.org/q/h/fb005-bp.html

http://members.iinet.net.au/~adelegc/grammar/possessive_adjectives/possessiveadjectives.html

Possessive pronouns

http://www.grammar.cl/Games/Possessive_Pronouns.htm

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vc-pronouns-lb.html