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hjvhwhat'sgm,Possessive adjectives modify nouns.

In English, the possessive adjectives are:

• my
• your (2nd person singular)
• his, her, its
• our
• your (2nd person plural)
• their

Examples

• This is my shoe.
• That is your shoe. (Speaking to only one person)
• That is her shoe.
• These are our shoes.
• Those are your shoes. (Speaking to more than one person)
• Those are their shoes.

In each of these sentences, the possessive pronoun (in bold) modifies or describes the noun "shoe" or "shoes."

Possessive adjectives are sometimes called possessive pronouns. However, possessive adjectives are not true pronouns in that they cannot replace nouns in a sentence; their function is only to modify nouns. A possessive pronoun is a word that attributes ownership to someone or something without using a noun. ...