Possessive Pronouns / Adjectives

Possessive Pronouns
• Possessive pronouns are used in English to
avoid repeating information.
Example:
This pencil is my pencil, not your pencil.
(Sounds repetitive)
This pencil is mine, not yours.
(Mine and yours are possessive
pronouns)
• Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns
sometimes are confusing because most of them are
very similar in form.

Possessive adjective Possessive Pronouns

My Mine
Your Yours
His His
Her Hers
Its Its
Our Ours
Their Theirs
Meaning
mine ours
le mien / la mienne le nôtre / la nôtre
les miens / les miennes les nôtres / les nôtres

yours yours
le tien / la tienne le vôtre/ la vôtre
les tiens / les tiennes les vôtres / les vôtres

theirs
le leur / la leur
his, hers les leurs / les leurs
le sien / la sienne
les siens / les siennes
 Takes the
Describes a
place of
noun
a noun

Examples:
My house is big (MY is an adjective, describes the house )
Yours is small (YOURS is a pronoun, takes the place of
noun “house”)
Another easy way to remember how to use them :

Possessive Adjective:
Possessive Pronoun:
Possessive Adjective + Noun
Noun + Possessive Pronoun

My cat is small. The cat is mine.

Her dog is The black dog is
black. hers.
Their brother plays The car is ours.
soccer.
sive adjectives go before the noun and possessive pronouns go af
Examples
• This is my table. >>>> POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE
• The table is mine.>>>> POSSESSIVE PRONOUN

• Is that your pencil?>>POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE

• Is that pencil yours?>>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)
Excersises: Fill in the blank with the correct
possessive adjective(my, your, his, her, its, our,
their)
1. I like (I)boots.
2. She lives with (she) father.
3. I have (you) book.
4. I know (they) cousin.
5. She likes (he) shoes.
6. The teacher has homework.
(she)
7. I buy (we) coffee every day.
8. He loves (she) apple pie.
9. She wants (I) money.
10. I like (Dave and Tanya) car.
Fill in the blank with the correct
possessive Pronoun
1. I have a dog. That
dog is !
2. She has a cat.
That cat is !
3. We have a car. That
car is !
4. They have
a bike. That bike is !
5. He has a key. That
 key is !
6. You have a
hat. That hat is !