5-2 Possessive adjectives -bullet points

Placement

• possessive adjectives are always placed before the nouns the modify/describe/possess
  

Gender and number agreement

• Yes, unlike English, French poss. adj.'s have to agree with the gender and the noun they modify/describe/posses
• mon frère *a masc. sing. noun and, therefore, a masc. sing. possessive adj. to match it
• ma soeure
• mes grands-parents

Note/Recognize;

• notre, votre, and leur only need to agree with the number only *since the masc. and fem. versions are the same/ they don't have different ones for them to thereby be used to express any differences. IN sum: the plural possesive adjectives only have to disstinguish between sing or not sing/plur.
  

Note/Important to Know;

• The masc. sing. forms of mon, ton, and son are used with fem. sing. nouns that begin with a vowel sound.
• mon amie my friend
  
• ton étudiante your student
  
• son histoire his story

Also Important to Know; */ the think it important to point out;

• Son, sa, and ses, the one use, depends on still only on the gender and number of the noun possessed/modified,
  
• and it does not depend on the gender and number of the owner/who the possessive adjective is describing/filling in the place for
• *so.... if it it was Mary's sister. it is Her sister and you still use what you would use in the rules before.. *the son, sa, ses can mean either his or her
• son frère *masc. sing. noun, therefore, masc. sing. poss. adj. his/her brother
  
• sa soeur his/her sister
  
• ses parents his/her parents