Clarification of post #2 and #5
There were some incorrect grammatical points in post #2 and #5 and Chirimoya has given me the go ahead to summarize the grammatical concepts. Thanks Chiri.
Just to be short and simple:
There are two types of possessive adjectives in Spanish and they agree in number and gender with nouns they modify:
Type I
● the adjective is placed in front of the noun. For example:
the forms are as follows:
mi/mis, tu/tus, su/sus, nuestro/a, nuestros/as, (vuestro/a, vuestros/as), su/ sus
mi casa, mis zapatos, tu libro, tus cosas etc.
Type II
● the adjective is placed after the noun. For example:
the forms are as follows:
m?o/a, m?os/m?as, tuyo/a, tuyos/tuyas, suyo/a, suyos/as, nuestro/a, nuestros/as (vuestro/a, vuestros/as) suyo/a, suyos/as
La casa m?a, los amigos tuyos, las cosas suyas etc.
● To form phrases the format is as follows:
For example:
La culpa es suya. (there is no def. article [la] between ?es? and ?suya?). La culpa es la suya is NOT correct.
As promised I wanted to keep the summary simple. I hope this is clear.
LDG.