• 1 TRY OUT LANGUAGE

• 2 LEARN GRAMMAR

• 3 APPLY ON YOUR OWN

Use Possessive Adjectives

How do you show who owns or has something? You use possessive words.

• • Use a possessive adjective to tell who has or owns something. Put the possessive adjective before the noun.

  EXAMPLES	The leaves covered the yard. Their colors looked like a rainbow on the grass.
  	The mother told her sons to rake the leaves.

• • Match the possessive adjective to the noun or pronoun it goes with.

  EXAMPLES	Lou opened the tool shed. He pronoun grabbed his rake from the hook.
  	Lou thought life noun was unfair. Its demands ruined his day.

Practice Together

Read the passage. Choose the correct form.

Try It!

Read the passage. Write each correct form on a card.

Read the passage and add the correct forms.

The fox tried to trick his friend.