Possessive determiner

/pəzˈɛsɪv dɪtˈɜːmɪnə/

/pəzˈɛsɪv dɪtˈɜːmɪnɚ/

a type of determiner that indicates ownership or possession and is used before a noun to show that something belongs to someone

Examples

1. it's ours and theirs notice that there are no apostrophes in possessive pronouns to make a noun possessive we would add an apostrophe and an s but not with pronouns we just use the possessive case no apostrophes allowed there's one thing we need to clarify about possessive case pronouns there are some pronouns called possessive determiners and these are the ones we use right before nouns to show possession like look at my shoes and your shoes hey look at our shoes these pronouns my your his her