Unit 7
Possessive pronouns
The following words are possessive pronouns . They are also used to show who owns things: mine yours his hers ours theirs There is no noun after these pronouns: This bag is yours . That bag is mine .
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7 Complete the paragraph with mine , yours, his, hers, ours or theirs .
Mrs. Paul is sorting out the things her students have left in the classroom. “The sports bag belongs to Dana. The sneakers are hers too. The T-shirt is Ben’s. The shorts are ______ too. These books belong to Javon and Greg. The pens are ______ as well. Those are my car keys under the books. That phone is ______ too. Whose is this lunch box? Is it ______, Kim?”
8 Choose the correct words to complete the sentences. 1 Mrs. Paul told the students to tidy their (their / theirs) things. 2 The phone she found was ______ (her / hers). 3 You can borrow this pen as you have lost ______ (your / yours). 4 I think these are ______ (our / ours) books. 5 This is not your sports bag. It looks like ______ (my / mine). 6 Are these T-shirts ______ (their / theirs)? 7 “Where is ______ (my / mine) lunch box?” Kim asked. Reflexive pronouns
The following words are reflexive pronouns : myself yourself himself herself
itself
ourselves
themselves
They refer back to the subject of the verb: The boy hurt himself when he tripped on a stone .
9 Complete each sentence with the correct reflexive pronoun.
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1 Kayla bought herself a sno-cone. 2 Ben chose his new bicycle ______.
3 The baby bird was not able to feed ______. 4 The students did all the work by ______. 5 Dana and I took a photo of ______ on my phone. 6 “You should feel proud of ______,” said the teacher.
• Exercise 8: Remind students not to confuse pronouns ( mine, yours etc.) with adjectives ( my, your etc.). • Exercise 9: To identify the correct reflexive pronoun, tell students to find the subject of the sentence. If the subject is a noun, they can replace it with a subject pronoun, e.g. Kayla ➞ she ➞ herself .
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