3. Possesive Adjectives
As their name suggests, possessive adjectives are
often used to express possession or ownership.
4. Revise and check
• Complete the gaps.
• Mary always go shopping with …her…… husband.
• My brother wants to sell .....his.... car.
• My parents like …our/their…… house.
• Jack and I give a party. ……our……. party is amazing.
5. Common mistakes
We went to my house.
This house is my. (mine)
I want to give the lions this toy because I know it is their. (Their)
The lions hunted their prey.
7. What is the possessive case?
• The possessive case shows ownership. With the addition of ’s (or
sometimes just the apostrophe), a noun can change from a simple
person, place, or thing to a person, place, or thing that owns
something.
8. When do we use it?
• We use the possessive case when we talk about things that belong to
a person or an animal, but we also use it to express relationships and
physical characteristics of the subject.
9. Rules
• If the noun doesn’t end with an s, add ’s to the end of the noun.
The dog is Mary’s pet.
10. • But when you have a plural noun that ends in s, add just the
apostrophe. This is also true when you have a proper noun that’s
plural.
This is the Minions’ bedroom.
11. • If you have a compound noun (for example, when you’re talking
about two people who jointly own one thing), change only the last
noun to the possessive.
These is Martha and Jack’s ball.
Those’re Martha, Sally and Diego’s balls.
12. • If the possessor is a building, an object, or a piece of furniture, you
don’t need to add an apostrophe to show possession.
• We meet in the office lobby.
• We meet in the office’s lobby.
