Possessive Adjective

A Possessive Adjective is an adjective that expresses possession.

• AKA: Possessive Determiner.
• Example(s):
  • “my” ⇒ "Jane is [my] daughter.”
  • “his” ⇒ "John is [his] youngest child.”
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Comparative Adjective,
  • Demonstrative Adjective,
  • Descriptive Adjective,
  • Distributive Adjective,
  • Interrogative Adjective,
  • Positive Adjective,
  • Quantitative Adjective,
  • Superlative Adjective.
• See: Possessive Noun, Possessive Terminal Word.

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References

2019a

• (Wiktionary, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/possessive_adjective
  • QUOTE: An adjective expressing possession. "My" and "his" are possessive adjectives.

2019b

• (FluentU, 2019) ⇒ https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/english-adjectives/
  • QUOTE: Possessive adjectives show possession. They describe to whom a thing belongs. Some of the most common possessive adjectives include:
    • My — Belonging to me
    • His — Belonging to him
    • Her — Belonging to her
    • Their — Belonging to them
    • Your — Belonging to you
    • Our — Belonging to us

All these adjectives, except the word his, can only be used before a noun. You can’t just say “That’s my,” you have to say “That’s my pen.” When you want to leave off the noun or pronoun being modified, use these possessive adjectives instead:

• Mine
• His
• Hers
• Theirs
• Yours
• Ours

For example, even though saying “That’s my” is incorrect, saying “That’s mine” is perfectly fine.

Examples:

“Whose dog is that?” “He’s mine. That’s my dog.”

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