Grammar: Possessives

Personal Pronouns		Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns		Reflexive Pronouns
subject form	object form	possessive adjective	possessive pronoun
I	me	my	mine	myself
you	you	your	yours	yourself
he	him	his	his	himself
she	her	her	hers	herself
it	it	its	its	itself
we	us	our	ours	ourselves
you	you	your	yours	yourselves
they	them	their	theirs	themselves

Personal Pronouns

Subject Form

Subject pronouns replace the noun performing the action in a sentence.

Example:

Hamad eats breakfast in the morning.

He eats breakfast in the morning.

Object Form

Object pronouns replace the noun receiving the action in a sentence.

Example:

Hamad eats breakfast in the morning.

Hamad eats it in the morning.

Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns

Possessive Adjective

Possessive adjectives clarify who or what owns something. They go before nouns to modify them.

Example:

Hamad likes Hamad's car.

Hamad likes his car.

Possessive Pronouns

Possessive Pronouns show possession of a noun by replacing it.

Example:

Hamad's house is bigger than my house.

Hamad's house is bigger than mine.

Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns refer back to a person or thing. We often use them when the subject and the object are the same.

Example:

Sara looked at Sara in the mirror.

Sara looked at herself in the mirror.