What is the difference between possesive adjectives and possessive pronouns and demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns?

Difference between possessive pronoun and possessive adjective:

A noun does not immediately follow a possessive pronoun, while a possessive adjective always comes before a noun.

Example of possessive pronoun:

1. That yellow painted house is his.

2. That idea was hers.

Example of possessive adjective:

1. My book is lying on the table.

2. Your phone is with the teacher.

 

Difference between demonstrative pronoun and demonstrative adjective:

A noun does not immediately follow a demonstrative pronoun, while a demonstrative adjective always comes before a noun.

Example of demonstrative pronoun:

1. This is my car.

2. These are good apples.

 

Example of demonstrative adjective:

1. That house is mine

2. I don’t know why such questions are asked.

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A possessive pronoun is used instead of a noun:

Julie's car is red. Mine is blue; My book is large.Yours is small.

A possessive adjective is usually used to describe a noun, and it comes before it, like other adjectives:

My car is bigger than her car

 

Demonstrative adjectives indicate exactly which noun the speaker means and where it is (or they are) relative to the position of the speaker.

Demonstrative pronouns look exactly like demonstrative adjectives – this, that, these, those. But the difference between the adjective and the pronoun is that the adjective is always followed by a noun while the pronoun is not because it takes the place of the noun phrase.For example:

  • The food you’re cooking smells delicious. --> That smells delicious.

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