Possessive adjectives / pronounsصفات وضمائر الملكية - اللغه الانجليزيه

This is Melanie. She is sitting at her desk. She is giving a file to her colleague, Samantha . The files behind her are hers .Melanie's boss asks her to update them every meek.

Possessive Adjectives : صفات الملكية (تأتي قبل الأسم المملوك )

my / our / your / your / his / her / their

Possessive Pronouns : ضمائر الملكية ( تأتي في نهاية الجملة ولا يأتي بعدها شيئ )

mine / ours / yours / yours/ his / hers / theirs

Examples

-I like Hussein. Do you like him, too, Hamdi?

- My sister never drinks milk. She doesn't like it.

- Where's Enas? Mona wants to talk to her.

- Karim, Hassan and I are going shopping. Do you want to come with us?

- Emad washed the plates, but he didn't dry them.

- Galal! Ali! Did you get that book for me?

•Both possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns can be used to talk about ownership or the relationship between people. Possessive adjectives are followed by noun whereas possessive pronouns are not.

كلاً من صفات وضمائر الملكية تستخدم للملكية ولكن صفات الملكيه يتبعها اسم أما ضمائر الملكية لا يتبعها اسم

e.g.

-this is her bag. It's hers.

•We normally use possessive adjectives with parts of the body and clothes.

e.g.

-Lucy twisted her ankle.

-He put on his jacket and his hat and left.

We use the and not possessive adjectives with prepositional phrases mostly when we are talking about things that happen to parts of people's bodies. For example, blows, pains, etc. Verbs usually used in this pattern are: hit, punch, slap, bite. touch. pat, sting, etc,

Examples

-She patted him on the shoulder.

-He's got a pain in the chest

Notice the difference between the following :

Their, There, ,They’re

1- Their à ضمير ملكية للإنسان أو الحيوان ولابد أن يأتي بعدها شئ يمتلك

2- There à تعني (هناك) ومن الممكن أن تدل على الاتجاه

ملحوظة: يتم اختيار (there) إذا جاء بعدها (or) are is