English Grammar: Possessive Adjectives

A1–A2PronounsMarch 15, 2026

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hi everybody in this video we're going

to learn about possessive adjectives we

use possessive adjectives to show that

something belongs to me or something

belongs to someone else I own something

or someone owns something okay so let's

take a look at the board

now last time we learned about

subjective pronouns and here they are I

he she it you we they and here are the

possessive adjectives okay my we use my

to show that something belongs to me

okay

his this means that something belongs to

one man or one boy her we use that to

show something belongs to one woman or

one girl it's we use it's to show that

something belongs to an animal we use

your to show that something belongs to

you okay

our our means that something belongs to

me and you or me and somebody else okay

or me and other people okay and last we

use their to show that something belongs

to many people okay not me but many

people okay now I want you to pay

attention to three special words it's

your and there now I want you to notice

these words sound like other words so

you have to be careful not to get them

confused and I'm going to explain it's

sounds like the contraction for it is

it's okay so don't get that confused

your sounds like the contraction for you

are your

okay so make sure you use this one to

show possession okay and the last word

there it actually sounds like two other

words the contraction for they are there

or the word th ER e the other word there

okay so please don't get those confused

now I know all of this sounds very hard

but if you practice with me I'm sure

you'll understand so let's move on to

the next part

okay let's practice together now here I

have a marker it belongs to me so I have

to say this is my marker this isn't your

marker this is my marker okay let's look

at this boy he has a hat so I have to

say this is his hat this is his hat this

isn't my hat

this isn't your hat okay and this girl

has a dress so this is her dress this is

her dress this isn't my dress this isn't

your dress

okay in this picture there's an animal a

dog and it has a ball I have to say this

is its ball this is its ball this isn't

my ball and this isn't your ball now in

this picture we have two people okay and

they both own this house so this is

their house this is their house okay

now a little bit farther away we have

three books okay and this boy and girl

have the books here so we have to say

those and because we have more than one

we have to use our okay

a those are their books

those are their books those aren't my

books those aren't your books okay and

the last one here's the country Korea

okay we all live here so we say this is

our country this is our country

okay let's move on to the next part for

some more practice okay here are some

practice sentences we're going to put

possessive adjectives on these lines

okay so let's try together

I put candy in hmm mouth okay this is a

mouth

I put candy in what should we put my

mouth okay

next John John is one man or boy John

lost hmm bag okay for one man or boy we

say his John lost his bag okay the

parents that's more than one person

that's two people so the parents love

baby we have to put their the parents

love their baby okay and here the dog K

the dog is an animal so the dog eats hmm

food what do we put we have to say it's

the dog eats its food okay let's look at

some more examples let's continue

mmm names are Paul and Sam okay we have

two people Paul and Sam

and the plural names so we have to say

there

their names are Paul and Sam okay can I

use mm phone okay I'm asking you so I

have to say can I use your phone okay

and the next one

hmm makeup looks good whose makeup

well usually girls or women wear makeup

so I'm going to say her makeup looks

good okay and videos are helpful to you

okay these are the videos that we make

right we teach English in these videos

so the answer is our our videos are

helpful to you or we sure hope they are

okay so in this video we learned how to

use possessive adjectives don't forget

you have to put a noun

after each one I hope you understand and

I hope to see you in the next video bye

Quiz

Question 1 of 10

Which possessive adjective corresponds to the subject pronoun "he"?

Which possessive adjective corresponds to the subject pronoun "he"?

my

his

her

its

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Learn possessive adjectives in English: my, your, his, her, its, our, and their.

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