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Notes: A possessive adjective is similar or identical to a possessive pronoun; however, it is used as an adjective and modifies a noun or a noun phrase. For example: 1  I can't complete my assignment because I don't have the textbook. * 2  In this sentence, the possessive adjective  my  modifies the noun assignment. * Here the possessive adjective  your  is used to modify the noun phrase phone number. 2  The cat chased its ball down the stairs and into the backyard. * 3  In this sentence, the possessive adjective  its  modifies ball.
Therefore, if either of the nouns is modified by an adjective, the adjective is placed after the pair in order to keep the nouns together.Examples: This is a simple word pair meaning âthe house of Israelâ (the pair is definite, of course, because the noun Yisrael is a proper noun). So far so good.mbiguous Cases. In both sets of examples given above, it is easy to see which noun in the word pair is modified by the adjective, since the adjective matches the noun in gender, number, and definiteness. However, there are cases where it is not so clear.