Possessive Adjectives

Adjectives describe or modify nouns and pronouns.  

The motive of an adjective is to describe a noun or pronoun and provide more information about it.  

• Possessive adjectives show ownership or relationship. 
• Possessive adjectives, also known as possessive determiners, indicate whom an item belongs to. 
• Possessive adjectives take the place of the definite article the, and state whom or what an item belongs to. 
• The possessive adjectives are my, your, his, her, its, our, their, and whose.  
• Possessive determiners are generally placed in front of the noun they modify. 
• If the noun is modified by one or more other determiners, the possessive determiner is placed first. 
• Possessive determiner corresponds with each personal pronoun. 
• Possessive determiners are generally confused with possessive personal pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs).