Possessives: adjectives Possessives: adjectives Level: beginner 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. The possessive pronoun "ours" replaces "the family's" to show ownership of the car. Unlike the possessive adjective "our," the possessive pronoun "ours" can stand alone all by itself in the sentence and still make sense. This is the how you can tell the difference between a possessive adjective and a possessive pronoun. Furthermore, it is a "possessive" pronoun because it tells who owns, or possesses, the noun it is replacing. So far, we have been talking about the difference between the possessive adjective and the possessive pronoun. You will recall that in a previous lesson, you already learned about the possessive adjectives. mi (s) my. Subtypes include personal and possessive pronouns, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relative and interrogative pronouns, and indefinite pronouns. Possessive determiners (from Latin: possessivus; Ancient Greek: constitute a sub-class of determiners which modify a noun by attributing possession (or other sense of A possessive adjective is used to describe a noun. E.g. my, his, its, and so on. Unlike the personal pronouns (using finger-pointing), the possessive adjectives usues the whole "B-thumb" handshape. Unlike the possessive pronouns (e.g. mine, yours, hers, theirs, etc.) in ASL, the movement for most possessive adjectives is generally once, whereas UAaHqvo.

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