Possessive adjectives (e.g. my, your, her, its, his) and possessive pronouns (e.g. theirs, mine, yours, his, hers) are both used to show possession or ownership of something.
Possessive adjectives are always followed by a noun.
My shoes. Your hair.
Possessive pronouns are not followed by a noun.
Yours are brighter. Hers are cleaner.
Hers Understand
1. Rewrite the following sentences, putting in a correct possessive adjective or possessive pronoun where they are missing.
(a) Mark has already eaten ______ slice of cake, but I’m saving ______ until later.
(b) I do not understand why ______ wifi is not connecting when ______ is working.
(c) Jennifer has broken ______ arm. (d) We gave them ______ email addresses and they gave us ______ . (e) ______ calculator is broken, can I borrow ______?
2. Write the correct possessive pronoun and possessive adjective for each of the personal pronouns below. The first one is done for you.
