Pengertian Possessive Adjective
Possessive adjective adalah determiner (special adjective) yang digunakan untuk menyatakan kepemilikan (possession) terhadap noun. Possessive adjective terdiri dari my, your, his, her, its, our, dan their.Possessive adjectives are the words used to show a form of possession/ ownership or are used to express a close relationship with someone or something. Moreover, just like the article “the,” a possessive adjective also implies definiteness. Some of the most basic possessive adjectives that are commonly used in the English language are: my, your, our, its, her, his, their, and whose (interrogative).
Possessive adjectives refer to words which modify a noun by showing a form of possession or a sense of belonging to a particular person or thing.
Possessive adjectives are used to indicate who (or what) owns something.
Contoh Possessive Adjective:
my books, your father, our class, their rule, his shorts, her skirt, its tail (buku saya, ayah kamu, kelas kita, peraturan mereka, celana pendek dia, rok dia, ekornya)Pronoun dan Possessive Adjective
Possessive adjective memiliki bentuk yang mirip dengan possessive pronoun. Perbandingan antara pronoun dengan possessive adjective dapat dilihat pada tabel sebagai berikut.Person | Number | Posessive Pronoun | Number | Possessive Adjective |
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1st | Singular | mine | singular atau plural | my |
2nd | yours | your | ||
3rd | hers, his, its | her, his, its | ||
1st | Plural | ours | our | |
2nd | yours | your | ||
3rd | theirs | their |
Pronoun berfungsi mengantikan noun yang dapat berupa singular (mine, yours, hers, his, its) atau plural (ours, yours, theirs). Jika noun yang berperan sebagai subjek kalimat berupa singular, maka verb yang mengikuti berbentuk singular, begitupun sebaliknya. Sedangkan semua possessive adjective dapat mengikuti noun baik berupa singular maupun plural. Pada klausa atau kalimat, jika noun yang berperan sebagai subjek kalimat berupa singular, maka diikuti verb berbentuk singular, berlaku sebaliknya.
Beberapa contoh Kalimatnya sebagai berikut [Subject= S; Subject Complement= SC; Object= O].
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Posisi Possessive Adjective
Possessive adjective tepat berada di depan simple noun atau dapat disela oleh determiner lain maupun adjective (sebagai modifier) pada noun phrase. Sebagai informasi, possessive adjective merupakan salah satu dari central determiner, yaitu determiner yang diletakkan diantara pre dan post-determiner pada suatu noun phrase.Contoh Possessive Adjective pada Noun Phrase:
- your choice
- two-third of his salary [two-third= fraction (predeterminer)]
- my funny cat [funny= adjective]
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