This document discusses possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns. It provides examples of possessive adjectives modifying nouns like "my green house" and "her room." Possessive pronouns are used to indicate possession without a noun, like "mine," "yours," "his," etc. The difference is that possessive adjectives modify nouns while possessive pronouns are used as subjects or objects in place of nouns.

1. Possessive Pronouns and Possessive
Adjectives

2. Possessive Adjective
A possessive adjective is used as an adjective and
modifies a noun or a noun phrase.

3. For example
Is this your ice cream? This is his coffee.

4. For example
Welcome to my green house! Her room is so cute.

5. For example
Those are our cupcakes. It is their cat.

6. Possessive Pronoun
The possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs) are
used to indicate possession.

7. Possessive Pronouns
 We use possessive pronouns to refer to a
specific person/people or thing/things
belonging to a person/people (and
sometimes belonging to an animal/animals
or thing/things).
 We use possessive pronouns depending on:
1. number: singular (eg: mine) or plural
(eg: ours)
2. person: 1st person (eg: mine), 2nd person
(eg: yours) or 3rd person (eg: his)

8. Pronouns

9. Example of Possessive Pronoun
That is my car.
That car is mine.

10. The Difference between Possessive
Adjective and Possessive Pronoun

11. Example of Possessive Pronoun
 Look at these pictures. Mine is the big one. (subject = My picture)
 I like your flowers. Do you like mine? (object = my flowers)
 I looked everywhere for your key. I found John's key but I couldn't
find yours. (object = your key)
 My flowers are dying. Yours are lovely. (subject = Your flowers)
 All the essays were good but his was the best. (subject = his essay)
 John found his passport but Mary couldn't find hers. (object = her passport)
 John found his clothes but Mary couldn't find hers. (object = her clothes)
 Here is your car. Ours is over there, where we left it. (subject = Our car)
 Your photos are good. Ours are terrible. (subject = Our photos)
 Each couple's books are colour-coded. Yours are red. (subject = Your
books)
 I don't like this family's garden but I like yours. (subject = your garden)
 These aren't John and Mary's children. Theirs have black hair. (subject =
Their children)