Possessive adjectives in Russian and English

In Russian, there are several bits of adjectives: they are high quality, relative and possessive.The first express the qualities of the subject: a tall, thin, wide, large, slow, red and so on. D. To the category of quality are adjectives denoting color, shape, character traits, physical and spatial-temporal characteristics are determined by the words.Typically, quality adjectives have several grammatical features by which they can be distinguished from the other bits of adjectives.

relative adjectives most often refer to the material composition of the object, designated defines the word, its time characteristic or purpose: plastic, fur, parent, tomorrow.All these signs are constant and adjectives not form degrees of comparison and do not have other symptoms of qualitative adjectives.Therefore, in most cases, fairly easy to distinguish.But not always.

Finally, another category - possessive adjectives expressing affiliation defined words: fox fur, my mother's shawl, shark's tail.However, sometimes there could be confusion because they do not always easy to distinguish possessive adjectives.Examples are indicative: fox fur and fox fur coat (that is made out of fox fur), shark fin and shark steak (of sharks), a pretty significant difference, is not it?More possessive adjectives can be confused with quality, but this is rare and usually occurs when the adjective is used in a figurative sense - "bear walk."

addition, possessive adjectives (unlike the rest of the digits of adjectives) have zero graduation.In the phrase "bear skin" an adjective formed from the noun "Bear" by adding the suffix "s" and has a zero ending, and the adjectives "red", "far" have the ending "s".So that knowledge digits adjectives can also help in the analysis of the composition of words.

in Russian textbooks in English and there is some confusion as to what constitutes possessive adjectives (posessive adjectives), because traditionally they are studying the topic of possessive pronouns, distinguishing thus relative and absolute form of pronouns.However, in British English there is no such classification, there is only the possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives, in the table below.

Possessive adjectives in English, so often referred to as a relative form of possessive pronouns, but in fact there is no such category.This is done for the convenience of English grammar, because in Russian these words really are pronouns.

Adjectives in this case be distinguished easily, since they always require behind a noun (i.e. my pen, his coat), whereas the pronouns are used in such grammatical structure as this pencil is mine, that coat is his (i.e.for them not to be a noun).Possessive adjectives in both languages ​​- a topic that has a lot of nuances that must be considered, so it is better to study it thoroughly.