Mengenal Perbedaan Possessive Adjectives & Possessive Pronouns

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 Possessive Adjectives & Possessive Pronouns

 

Dalam Bahasa Inggris, ada dua bentuk kata yang menunjukkan kepemilikan, yaitu:

• Possessive Adjectives → kata sifat kepemilikan yang digunakan sebelum kata benda (noun).
• Possessive Pronouns → kata ganti kepemilikan yang digunakan untuk menggantikan kata benda agar tidak diulang.

 

Possessive Adjectives

Possessive Adjectives selalu diikuti noun.

Contoh:

• My book is on the table. (Bukuku ada di atas meja)
• Your bag is new. (Tasmu baru)
• Their house is big. (Rumah mereka besar)

 

Possessive Pronouns

Possessive Pronouns berdiri sendiri, tanpa diikuti noun.

Contoh:

• This book is mine. (Buku ini punyaku)
• That bag is yours. (Tas itu punyamu)
• The big house is theirs. (Rumah besar itu milik mereka)

 

Tabel Perbandingan

Subject	Object	Possessive Adjectives	Possessive Pronouns
I	me	my	mine
You	you	your	yours
We	us	our	ours
They	them	their	theirs
He	him	his	his
She	her	her	hers
It	it	its	-

 

Perbedaan Penting

• Possessive Adjectives + Noun
  Example: This is my car.
• Possessive Pronouns (tanpa noun)
  Example: This car is mine.