Step 3 - Grammar

Grammar
Let’s look at ... possessive adjectives.

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Possessive adjectives


Do the exercises.

Read the sentences: I have got a hat. It’s my hat. The hat is mine.
Jack hasn’t got their landline number.
Whose is this pen? It’s hers.

Write down the sentences that are TRUE.

A bar at the Folies-Bergere by Manet
  1. In English adjectives don’t have plurals. So there is only one form.
  2. You cannot put a possessive pronoun with a noun or noun phrase
    e.g.: Have you seen theirs phones?
  3. There is no possessive pronoun for it.
  4. It’s and its are different.
  5. Its = possessive adjective
  6. It’s = contraction meaning It is or it has

In exercise 2 you fill in the missing possessive adjective or pronoun. These sentences are about this painting of Manet.