She or her…Possessive Adjective

For 1 subject:

I- my
he- his
she- her
you-your
it-its

For 2 or more:

we- our
they- their
you- your

Possessive adjectives (my, her, his) are those that show that a person owns something.

I am Fred and this is my dog.

He drives to school with his new car.

She is my sister and this is Mike, her husband.

You are alone. Where are your friends?   What is you’re?

We should clean our backyard.

They cleaned their classroom yesterday.

All of these sentences show ownership. Fred owns the dog, He owns the car so it is his car, We own the backyard so it is our backyard, and etc.

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Subject, Objects and Possesive

What are Subjects, Objects, and Possessive?

Subjects are the doer of the action (noun or pronoun). To find the subject, find first the verb and ask the question “Who or What?” Usually subjects comes first.

Example: She cleaned the room.
The verb is “clean.”
Then ask, “Who or what cleaned the room?”
or ask “Who cleaned the room?” because the doer of the verb (cleaning) is a person.

Example: The ball hit the glass.
The verb is “hit.”
Then ask, “Who or what hit the glass?”
or ask “What hit the glass?” because the doer of the verb (hit) is a thing.

Objects are the receiver of the action (noun or pronoun). Not all sentences have objects. The noun or pronoun that is affected by the verb or that has received the verb is the object.

Example: She cleaned the room.
The verb is “clean.”
Then think…The person or thing that received the cleaning?…
The object is “Room.”

Example: The ball hit the glass.
The verb is “hit.”
Then think…The person or thing that received the hitting?…
The object is “glass.”

Possessives show that something belongs to somebody.

Example: She cleaned the baby’s room.
The owner of the room is “the baby.”

Example: The ball hit the neighbor’s glass.
The owner of the glass is “the neighbor.”

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Who, Whom, Whose

Before we discuss about when to use who, whom and whose we have to study first about subjects, objects and possessive.

Who, Whom or Whose

• Who= replacing subjects
• Whom=replacing objects
• Whose= replacing possessive

• She invited me to her party.
• Who invited me to their party? (She, subject)
• Whom did she invite to her party? (Me, object)
• Whose party did she invite me? (Her party, possessive) or Whose party is it?

Pattern:

• Who + Verb
• Whom + …Subject (noun/pronoun)
• Whose + Noun that belongs to somebody

Example:

She called me through our fax.

Brian blamed me for the accident.

Who + Verb

Who called me through our fax?

Who blamed me for the accident?

Whom + …Subject

Whom did she call through fax?

Whom did Brian blamed for the accident?

*If there’s no subject (you, I, Brian..etc) after whom, it must be who.

*Whom is replaces only human objects. If the object is a thing like apple, ball, book then use “what.”

Whose + Noun that belongs to somebody

I ate Daddy’s apple. Whose apple did you eat?

He stepped on aunt Mary’s plant. Whose plant did he step on?

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