POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

A: Replace the personal pronouns by possessive pronouns.

1. These pencils are (you) ________________.

2. The blue ball is (I) ________________.

3. The blue car is (we) __________________.

4. That diamond ring is (she) _________________.

5. We met the famous singers Paul and Jane last night. This house is (they) _____________.

6. The luggage on the counter is (he) _________________.

7. The pictures on the wall near the pillar are (she) _______________.

8. In our garden in the summerhouse is a bird. The nest is (it) __________________.

9. This smelly good for nothing cat is (we) _______________.

10. Honestly, this was not my fault. It was (you) __________________

B - Fill out the correct possessive pronoun!

1. I have a dog. That dog is 4. They have a bike. That bike is

___________________ ! __________________ !

2. She has a cat. That cat is 5. He has a key. That key is

__________________ ! _________________ !

3. We have a car. That car is 6. You have a hat. That hat is

_________________ ! _________________ !

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C: Rewrite the sentence and replace the noun that is underlined with a possessive pronoun.

1. Look at the toy’s hat. _______________________________________________

2. Let’s go to Paul’s house.______________________________________________

3. That game is my family’s._____________________________________________

4. Is that Susan and Ted’s house?_________________________________________

5. I want to see Mary’s dress.____________________________________________

D: choose the right word

1. It’s their / theirs problem, not our / ours.

2. This is a nice camera. Is it your / yours?

3. That’s not my / mine umbrella. My / mine is black.

4. Whose books are these? Your / yours or my /mine?

5. Catherine is going out with her / hers friends this evening.

6. My / mine room is bigger than her / hers.

7. They have got two children but I don’t know their / theirs names.

8. Can we use your washing machine? Our / ours is broken.

>>http://ies1libertas.edu.gva.es/departamentos/ingles/PDFs/primero/eposp1e1.pdf << 20. 3. 2013

>> http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5173<< 20. 3. 2013

>>http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/pronouns/exercises?04<< 20. 3. 2013

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ANSWER KEY

a. Yours
b. Mine
c. Ours
d. Hers
e. Theirs
f. His
g. Hers
h. Its
i. Ours
j. Yours

a. Mine
b. Hers
c. Ours
d. Theirs
e. His
f. Yours

a. Look at its hat.

b. Let’s go to his house.
c. That game is ours.
d. Is that their house?
e. I want to see her dress.

a. Their / ours
b. Yours
c. My / mine
d. Yours / mine
e. Her
f. My / hers
g. Their
h. ours

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