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Possessive pronouns - exercises 1. Choose the correct word and rewrite the whole sentence. 1 Our house is smaller than theirs. 2 And their/theirs garden is bigger than our/ours, too. _______________________________________________________ 3 My/mine children are older than her/hers. _______________________________________________________ 4 Her/hers children go to the same school as my/mine. _______________________________________________________ 5 This book isn't my/mine. Is it your/yours? _______________________________________________________ 10 This is my/mine book. Where is your/yours? _______________________________________________________ 11 Is that their/theirs house? _______________________________________________________ 12 Yes, that house is their/theirs. _______________________________________________________ 2. Write sentences Example: This house/Peter This house is Peter's. It is his. These shoes/Mary These shoes are Mary's. They are hers. 1. This magazine/Ann _______________________________________________________ 2. That computer/I _______________________________________________________ 3. These coins/my wife _______________________________________________________ 4. Those plants/my grandmother _______________________________________________________ 5 This dictionary/my teacher _______________________________________________________ 6 That bike/Sue _______________________________________________________ 7 These cars/they _______________________________________________________ 8 Those diskettes/we _______________________________________________________ 9 That house/they _______________________________________________________ 10 This toy/that boy. _______________________________________________________ 3 Rewrite these sentences John's car/new - Mary's/old John's car is new, but Mary's is old. His is new, but hers is old. 1 John's house/small - Jennifer's/big _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 2 Sue's skirt/short - my sister's/long _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 3 George's hair/black - his wife's/fair _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 4 Martin's wife/tall - his brother's/short _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 5 Gregory's videos/good - his sister's/awful _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 6 Mary and Peter's dog/old - their neighbours'/young - (two dogs) _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 7 Your computer/modern - Mary's and Tom's/old (there are three computers) _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 8 Your country/big - Mary and Tom's/small (there are two countries) _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 9 Mary and her husband's car/new - Sue and her husband's/old (there are only two cars) _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 10 Mary's and her husband's cars/new - Sue's and her husband's/old (there are four cars) _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ home |
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