Possessive adjectives

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• Examples of possessive adjectives
• Examples of sentences with possessive adjectives
• Types of adjectives
• Other kinds of adjectives

The possessive adjectives They are those adjectives that serve to convey the ownership or possession of something. For example: my, his, his.

Within the possessive adjectives we can identify two groups, depending on whether they are located before or after the noun, and they are the following:

• In front of the noun. Always agrees in number with the noun (your shirt / your shirts) and agrees in gender only in the first and second person plural (our house / our home, your space / your idea) 
• Behind the noun. They are actually possessive pronouns. They always agree in gender and number with the noun (the pencil is mine / the bags are yours / the car is ours).

• See also: Possessive determiners

Examples of possessive adjectives

Examples of sentences with possessive adjectives

Below is a list of possessive pronouns, as an example:

1. Me guitar is a little out of tune.
2. I ask you to protect my belongings throughout the show.
3. This dog is Own, thanks for returning it.
4. I prefer not to ask for money and spend only the mine.
5. All those in the photo are cousins mine. 
6. The two lawyers who appeared on TV were students mine. 
7. your clothes are already ironed and folded over you bed.
8. You always lose your things.
9. Stay out of it, this matter is no problem of yours. 
10. My computer is not working well, we better work on the yours. 
11. My children will be coming on the trip, so they can befriend the yours. 
12. The songs that I liked the most about the recital were the yours.
13. its birthday present was a success.
14. I am very interested their reflections always provide an interesting look.
15. Those boys are taking something that isn't yours. 
16. She has nothing to do, the incident was not responsibility hers. 
17. We know that all the missing materials were his. 
18. They were able to solve only the tasks that were his. 
19. The architect of our he is very famous.
20. Our cards are used for many games.
21. Our dog are at the vet.
22. We will first have to define our objectives.
23. Your work is excellent.
24. I like very much your culture, especially gastronomy.
25. Your interests coincide with those of the company.

Types of adjectives

Within the adjectives we can identify different types. Some of them are the following:

• Numerals. They indicate the order and number of the noun. For example: four, twelve, second, seventh, fifth, eighth.
• Qualifiers. They express some quality of the subject of the sentence. For example: cute, ugly, good, bad, big, boy.
• DemonstrativeThey convey how far away the subject in question is. For example: this, that, that, those, these, those.
• Undefined. They define very vaguely the extent or meaning of the subject. For example: several, both, some, certain.
• Possessive. They convey the ownership or possession of something. For example: my, your, ours.

Other kinds of adjectives