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possessives: adjectives

 

Can you match these possessive adjectives to the right personal pronouns?

its, your, my, their, our, her, his

 

Subject Object Possessive
I me  
You you  
He him  
She her  
It it  
We us  
They them  

 

We use 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’s washing her hair.
I need to clean my teeth.

Exercise

Comments

tharindur818's picture
Submitted by tharindur818 on 3 April, 2012 - 11:24. Sri Lanka

Is this a question ? 
or should it be changed like '' you can '' ?
Can you match these possessive adjectives to the right personal pronouns:

AdamJK's picture
Submitted by AdamJK on 3 April, 2012 - 19:26. Poland

Hello,
Good point! I think the person writing that sentence probably forgot they were writing a question when they got to the end and put a colon instead to lead into the pronouns.
I've fixed it. Do tell us if you see any other problems on this site.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team

mydang's picture
Submitted by mydang on 29 February, 2012 - 13:47. Vietnam

I wish I  aware earlier  how important English is to my life.( not sure i wrote correctly)..
Somebody please help me to understand what is the difference between no and none, no and don't
such as : i don't need & i no need.
Thanks in advance.

Raashid's picture
Submitted by Raashid on 22 January, 2012 - 13:36. India

Some words are used with one spelling as nouns and another spelling as verb,such as 'advice' and 'advise', 'practice' and 'practise'.Are there any other words like that? Kindly let me know if there are any.

Stephen Jones's picture
Submitted by Stephen Jones on 24 January, 2012 - 12:34. Tunisia

Hi Raashid,
License (v) / ​licence (n) behave in the same way, as do prophesy (v) / prophecy (n) and devise (v) / device (n). There might be others.
It's important to note that in American English, as I understand it, there is often no spelling difference between the noun and the verb. Speakers of American English use practice and licence for both noun and verb forms, but they do use different spellings for advice and device.
A similar pair of words is ​effect and ​affect. ​These always confuse my students (and quite a few native-speakers, too!).
Regards,
Stephen
The LearnEnglish Team

Raashid's picture
Submitted by Raashid on 19 March, 2012 - 08:34. India

Thank you sir for this beautiful piece of info .I saw your reply today.

osanvc's picture
Submitted by osanvc on 19 September, 2011 - 06:28. Hong Kong

Mary saw Jessica takes her book.
what does 'her' refer to? Mary's or Jessica's?

AdamJK's picture
Submitted by AdamJK on 20 September, 2011 - 15:49. Poland

Hello,
That's a great question! There is no grammatical reason to say that it is one or another. We might guess through context that it is Mary's book, but that isn't certain. This is an example of an ambiguous sentence.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team

osanvc's picture
Submitted by osanvc on 5 October, 2011 - 19:01. Hong Kong

 
I've asked different people, some of them said Mary's, some of them said Jessica's. Those ambiguous answers confused me.
So this is the most distinct answer I've had out of many ambiguous answers!
Thanks Adam! I can finally understand!

freezer's picture
Submitted by freezer on 18 August, 2011 - 14:30. Mongolia

First try is 81.7% second try is 100%