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Activities: “What are possessive pronouns in English?”

By: Annie Lopes
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These activities are part of our English Grammar series. The skills we are practicing here are covered in our article:

Activity 1: Matching

Let’s start with a quick review! Match the + with the correct possessive pronoun that could replace it in a sentence.

his shirt
their dog
my jacket
her computer
our house
your dinner

  1. = mine

  2. = his

  3. = ours

  4. = yours

  5. = hers

  6. = theirs

Activity 2: Whose is it?

This group of friends is trying to clean up their mess on the table at a cafe. Help complete the mini conversations by filling in the possessive pronouns mine, yours, his, hers, ours, or theirs.

(The listener is on the left, and the speaker is second from the left.)

  • Question: “Whose phone is this?”
    Answer: "It's ."

    A graphic of four people. on the left two people stand close together, speaking. One of those point towards the two standing on the right, where a feminine figure is circled. Beside her, a masculine figure is not circled.

  • Question: "Whose book is this?"
    Answer: "It's ."

    A rough graphic with four cartoonish people. On the left, two people stand close together and on the right two more people stand a little further away. In this drawing, one of the closer people is circled as he points to himself.

  • Question: "Whose backpack is this?"
    Answer: "It's ."

    A rough graphic with four cartoonish people. On the left, two people stand close together and on the right two more people stand a little further away. In this drawing, one of the closer people is pointing to one of the people further away, who is circled.

  • Question: “Whose keys are these?”
    Answer: "Those are ."

    A rough graphic with four cartoonish people. On the left, two people stand close together and on the right two more people stand a little further away. In this drawing, one of the nearby people is circled, while the other points to him.

  • Question: “Whose trash is this?”
    Answer: "It's ."

    A rough graphic with four cartoonish people. On the left, two people stand close together and on the right two more people stand a little further away. In this drawing, one of the closer people is pointing to the two people who are further away, who are circled.

  • Question: “Whose coins are these?”
    Answer: "They're ."

    A rough graphic with four cartoonish people. On the left, two people stand close together and on the right two more people stand a little further away. In this drawing, both of the closer people are circled.

Activity 3: Fill in the blanks

Time for a little more challenge! This time you need to complete the blanks with the word choices that have been given in the box below. These include , , and . If you need help, you can go back to the post for some reminders!

NOTE:
You can use the words more than once, and you will not use every word.

mine
hers
his
theirs
ours
its
yours
I
our
his
we
you
she
it
my

Hi! name is Andrew. My friend Mike and want to create own social media app. Mike's ideas are okay, but the ideas for the project were not , they were all . After we make the app it will be together, and it’s going to be the best choice for everyone. Other creators have made apps like this as well, so will try to make this better than . My favorite part is that the only topics will be allowed to talk about are food, travel, and learning. We think that rule is going to be best detail, but I am sure my sister will not like that part! is always talking about politics, and I know she will want to add other things to profile. We know you will love , and once the new app is ready you won’t want to wait to start account!

A clipart graphic of several hands holding up smart phones that glow different bright colors. Above them the logos of various social media and other web-based companies float in multicolored bubbles.

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