Unidad Nº 2: Possessions

Objetivos:

- Identificar el uso de los adjetivos y los pronombres posesivos

- Reconocer el uso del caso posesivo.
- Diferenciar el uso de las palabras interrogativas Who y Whose.

Contenidos:

- Adjetivos y pronombres posesivos

- El caso posesivo
- Diferencia entre las palabras interrogativas Who y Whose

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HELLO EVERYBODY. HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY? LET’S WORK!

En esta clase conoceremos como expresar posesión o pertenencia en Inglés. Abordaremos el

uso del Caso Posesivo y el uso de los adjetivos y pronombres posesivos.

Possessives

Possessive Possessive
Adjectives Pronouns
I my mine

You your yours

He his his

She her hers

It its ---

We our ours

You your yours

They their theirs

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

a) We use possessive adjectives before nouns:

His book Their dogs

noun noun
 b) Possessive adjectives show that something belongs to someone:

I´m Mark. This is my house They are my neighbors. This is their new car

c) They are also used to show the relationship between two or more people:

She is Kate. Tom is her brother He is Mike. They are his parents

They are Robert and Anna. Tim and Katy are their grandchildren

Possesive adjectives do not change with plural forms:

our students, his cousins

POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

a) Possessive pronouns show that something belongs to someone, but they

do not take a noun after them.

b) We can use a possessive pronoun instead of a full noun phrase to avoid

repeating words.
 Are these John's books?
No, they are mine. (NOT ‘No, they are my books’)

Whose coat is this? Is it yours? (NOT Is it your coat?)

The Possessive Case

a) We add -’s when a noun is singular to show possession and relationships:

This is Mark’s house

Tom is Kate’s brother

They are Mike’s parents

b) We add -’ when a noun is plural and ends in –s to show possession and

relationship:

This is my neighbors’ new car

This is the boys’ bedroom

c) When we have two or more nouns, we add -’s to the last noun.
 Tim and Katy are Robert and Anna´s grandchildren

We don´t use a thing or an object + ‘s:

The end of the movie (NOT the movie´s end)

Who…? or Whose…?
➢ We use Who to talk about people. For example:

“Who is Tom? He is Kate’s brother”

➢ We use Whose to ask about possession. For example:

“Whose is this house? It’s Mark’s”

Videos:

Para complementar esta explicación le recomiendo consultar los siguientes videos

explicativos:
Possessive adjectives: https://youtu.be/8g-Z8rRfiG4
Possessive pronouns: https://youtu.be/YEqGO6ZDQC0
Possessive case: https://youtu.be/VricpMz1igo

Practice:

A los fines de seguir avanzando en la comprensión de este tema y poner en práctica lo

aprendido le propongo realizar la ejercitación que a continuación se adjunta, junto con
las correspondientes respuestas para su autoevaluación

Bibliography:

➢ EVANS, V. and DOOLEY, J. Enterprise: Grammar 1. Express Publishing.1999

➢ MURPHY, Raymond. English Grammar in Use. Second edition. Cambridge
University Press. 1994.
➢ http://dictionary.cambridgew.org>gramaticainglesa