Read & Listen: Possessive Adjectives -3
OVERVIEW
On this page, you will learn about possessive adjectives.
- First, read the text and study the chart.
- Then, listen to audio of the text.
READ & LISTEN
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Possessive adjectives are pronouns. They are used to tell who owns or possesses something. Possessive adjectives are always used in front of nouns. They are never used alone. They can be singular or plural.
Here are some examples of how subject pronouns and possessive adjectives are used in sentences.
| Subject Pronoun | Possessive Adjective | Sentence |
| I | my | I visit my family. |
| you | your | You visit your family. |
| he | his | Jamil visits his family. |
| she | her | Yumi visits her family. |
| it | its | The country celebrates its holiday. |
| we | our | We visit our family. |
| they | their | They visit their family. |
POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES CHART Links to an external site.
You can also show who owns or has something by adding possessive s after the name of a person or another noun. To write possessive s, you write apostrophe (') plus s.
Example:
Jamil's family visits him.
Yumi's family visits her.
The clinic's hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.