Topic 6

Topic 6

Possessive Pronoun         P4 = P2 + noun

     

          P1                P2               P3                 P4

           I                 my              me                mine

          You             your             you               yours    

          He               his               him               his

          She              her              her                hers        

          It                 its                it                  ---

          We               our              us                 ours

          You               your           you               yours

          They             their           them             theirs

          Those are Joseph’s slippers. 

           Those are his.

          This is my computer.

           This is mine.

          (P4 is used to avoid repeating the noun which is mentioned earlier.)

           Here are your books.

           Where are mine?

Try and See:

Fill in the blanks with P4.

1.  My uncle has a big house.  That house is __________.

2.  Joan has a new school bag.  That school bag is ___________.

3.  I have a pair of spectacles.  That pair of spectacles is _____________.

4.  They have new bicycles.  Those bicycles are ____________.

5.  You and Robert have blue shirts.  __________ are light blue.

6.  Ali        and Peter have new kites.  The butterfly-shaped kites are _______.

7.  Roland and I have files.  The files red in colour are __________.

8.  You have a bottle.  The one with a red cap is ___________.

9.  My mother has an umbrella.  The one green in colour is ___________.

10. We have a van.  The van parking over there is ___________.

Note:

Compare P2 with P4

My car --------à  mine        Your car --------à yours     13