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Personal and possesive pronouns

as subject as object (accusative and Possessive Possessive


(nominative) dative) determiners pronouns
I me my mine
you you your yours
he him his his
she her her hers
it it its its
we us our ours
you you your yours
they them their theirs

As subject: As possesive determiner:


It is used as the subject in the phrase. It is used befote a noun to express posesión or
belonging
 I am happy
 You are crazy  That is my car
 He is tall  This is your check
 She is short  Lets go to his house
 It is big  She invited us to her club
 We are young  That is its toy
 You are ill  This is our school
 They are sad  Please call your mom
 They talked to their parents
As object:
It is used to complement the verb or the preposistions As possesive pronoun:
(for, to, with, at). Used to express posesión and belonging on an object.

 Can you help me?  This car is mine


 I can help you  Those houses are tours
 Can you call him?  That homework was his
 Forgive her  The cats were hers
 Give it a break  The balls was its
 Can you pick us up?  That land was ours
 I miss you  This farm will be tours
 He can talk to them  They will inherit and the farm will be
theirs.

Practice with these exercises:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/pronouns/exercises?04

http://resources.marshalladulteducation.org/hot_potatoes/pronouns/pronouns.htm

http://www.adelescorner.org/grammar/possessive_pronouns/possessivepronouns.html

http://www.nspeak.com/newbasic/grammatica/esercizio31.htm

http://www.carmenlu.com/first/grammar/possessives14.html

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2679

Homework:

Write 1 phrase using all the personal and possesive pronoun forms.

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