possessives: adjectives
Can you match these possessive adjectives to the right personal pronouns?
its, your, my, their, our, her, his
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.
Comments
Is this a question ?
or should it be changed like '' you can '' ?
Can you match these possessive adjectives to the right personal pronouns:
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
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.
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.
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
Thank you sir for this beautiful piece of info .I saw your reply today.
Mary saw Jessica takes her book.
what does 'her' refer to? Mary's or Jessica's?
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
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!
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