What are Possessive Pronouns?— Let’s Practise!

What are Possessive Pronouns?— Let’s Practise! exercise

• What are possessive pronouns?

  Hints

  What word do you see within the word pronoun?

  Possessive has the root word, possess, which means to own.

  Solution

  Possessive pronouns take the place of nouns in a sentence.

  Possessive pronouns are used to show ownership.

• Are the possessive pronouns singular or plural?

  Hints

  When you refer to 'his book', does the book belong to a single person or lots of people?

  When you say something is 'ours', does that mean it belongs to one person or more than one person?

  • Singular refers to a single person.
  • Plural refers to more than one person.

  Solution

  • Mine and his are singular pronouns.
  • Ours and theirs are plural pronouns.

  • Sometimes 'theirs' can refer to a single person if they prefer to have 'they' pronouns.

• What are the missing pronouns?

  Hints

  When something belongs to more than one child, it belongs to them. Which possessive pronoun from the word bank would fit best here?

  If we know the gender of the child is a girl or boy, then we know to use his or hers.

  Solution

  • The bike belongs to the girl, it is hers.
  • The pencils belong to the boy, they are his.
  • The kittens belong to both of the children, they are theirs.

• Find the possessive pronoun.

  Hints

  Remember that possessive pronouns take the place of a noun in a sentence.

  Possessive pronouns show who the items belong to.

  Solution

  The table shows the correct possessive pronouns from each sentence.

  • The children loved their puppy.
  • The puppy loved his fur being stroked.
  • The puppy is ours, we all take care of it.
  • I also have a pet hamster, he is mine.

• Complete the sentence using the correct pronoun.

  Hints

  • For a boy we use he.
  • For a girl we use she.
  • For myself or I we use me.

  • The possessive pronoun for he is his.
  • The possessive pronoun for she is hers.
  • The possessive pronoun for me is mine.

  Which possessive pronoun would we use when something belongs to a girl?

  Solution

  The paints belong to the girl, they are hers.

• What is missing from the table?

  Hints

  What are the types of possessive pronoun? We have plural for more than one person, and ______ for just one person.

  What is the plural form of mine? This means that it belongs to you and at least one other person.

  Solution

  Here is the completed table. The types of possessive pronoun are singular and plural. The plural form of mine is ours.