GUIDE ENGLISH GRAMMAR BOOK

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Possessives and demonstratives
173 Summary
Possessives •174
There are possessive determiners (my, your etc) and possessive pronouns (mine,
yours etc).
It's my book. The book is mine.
These words express a relation, often the fact that something belongs to someone.
Demonstratives • 175
This, that, these and those are demonstrative determiners and pronouns.
This programme is interesting. This is interesting.
We use demonstratives to refer to something in the situation, to 'point' to
something. This and these mean something near the speaker. That and those mean
something further away.
174 Possessives
ARRANGING A MEETING
Emma: What about Friday?
Luke: I'll just look in my diary.
Emma: Have you got your diary, Sandy?
Sandy: I think so.
Gavin: I haven't got mine with me.
Luke: I can't come on Friday. We're giving a party for one of our neighbours. It's
her birthday.
1 Basic use
We use Possessives to express a relation, often the fact that someone has
something or that something belongs to someone. My diary is the diary that
belongs to me. Compare the possessive form of a noun. • 146
Luke's diary our neighbour's birthday
2 Determiners and pronouns
a
Possessive determiners (sometimes called 'possessive adjectives') come before a
noun.
my diary our neighbour her birthday
NOT the diary of me and NOT the my diary
NOTE
A possessive determiner can come after all, both or half, or after a quantifier + of. • 178(lb, lc)
all my money some of your friends a lot of his time one of our neighbours