Possessive 's' (Unit 6)

[Prokurator]

Today i recieved email English lesson email English course, lesson 6

[OxfordBlues]

M.Swan = bad!

Possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives are generally grouped together with other pronouns because they are all related and are used in similar ways, but there is a difference. It's best to learn these as a group with the nominative case first, then the dative & accusative (the same in English), the possessive adjectives, then the genitive (possessive pronouns).

In order these would be:

I - me - my - mine
You - you - your - yours
He - him - his - his
She - her - her - hers
It - it - its - its
We - us - our - ours
They - them - their - theirs

Note that the possessive adjectives are my, your, his, her, its, our, and their. They are used to modify a noun:

That is my book. That is your book. This is his car. This is her car. The dog bit its tail. Our house is red. Their cat is mean.

The possessive pronouns though take the place of a noun of pronoun. They are mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, and theirs. Compare the examples above with these:

That book is mine. That book is yours. This car is his. This car is hers. (note that you can say the tail was its, but normally you would just say 'the dog's tail') The red house is ours. The mean cat is theirs.
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[Badeee3]

It's easy to say that the red color is indicate for possessive,And the blue color is abbreviation for the verb '' is ''.

thank you mr. torsten it was easy lesson .

best regards

[Onoloo]

hello,
dear Torsten
I thinking red ''s'' is he's, she's and blue color have noun.

[Sara Elsysy]

lol love this lesson

[Lovas200]

Red is posessive only. The blue is the abbrevation of IS.

[Amekky]

The red ('s) to show possessive case. The ('s) in blue to show(is)
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[lenatvs@hotmail.com]

[lenatvs@hotmail.com]

Hello , Tosten I am so glade with yours lessons. I am thank you. About of lesson of today, I think that red is the possessive, for example: Her husband and her children. Blue is the verbs. I'm sorry because I don't known to write correctly.

[Miladnow]

HI EXCUSE ME TO BE LATE
THE BLUE ONES ARE SIMPLE PRESENT VERB : IS
BUT THE RED ONES ARE POSSESIVE MEANS HERS SUCH AS SARAH'S BOYEFIREND = BOYFRIEND OF SARAH

[Meronj]

hello torsten,
thanks to you, i really enjoy reading it,
the bull represent verb to be,like she is or he is ,it is,
the red represent possessive,
meron

[Simple777]

the RED color is possessive s

[Jyots]

Hi Teacher and all!

In the sentence "Her husband's name is frank" the -s shows the possessive form or means "belongs to".
In the sentence "she's 19 and she's a student" the -s is the compressed form of "is". Thus, the formal way of writing the sentence is "she is 19 and she is a student".

I hope I am not making any mistake, if no then do let know.
Thanks,
Jyots.

[Patkenneth]

Hi,
Thanks for lesson 6, i have just gone through it and it's quite interesting as usual.
For the answer to the question:
The blue stands for abbreviated (is),ie She's =She is.While the red is to show possession.
ie Sarah's.
Thanks,
Pat.

[Valnow]

RED - Possessive
BLUE - Verb TO BE