Some possessive pronouns are used before nouns. These include my, your, his,
her, its, our, and their. Write the possessive pronoun on the line. 1.
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• A possessive pronoun takes the place of a possessive noun. It shows who or what owns something. • Some possessive pronouns are used before nouns. These include my, your, his, her, its, our, and their. Write the possessive pronoun on the line. 1. New England is famous for its farms. 2. Mr. Paulsen told the class about his idea for a field trip.
3. He asked his art students to draw landscapes and animals.
4. Their drawings would be shown in a gallery. 5. Our class plans to take a trip to the show. 6. Lily wants to see the horses drawn by her cousin. 7. My mother told me to try some sketches as well. 8. Will your class go on any trips this year?
10. My father is going on the trip with us.
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9. This is the first trip for our class this year.
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• Some possessive pronouns can stand alone. These include mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, yours, and theirs. Read the sentences and the possessive pronouns in parentheses. Write the correct possessive pronoun. 1. The students in carousels.
class are designing
(our, ours)
.
(my, mine)
2. I am almost finished with ?
3. Did you finish
(your, yours) designs.
4. Nina and Nick showed me .
5. Nina used dinosaurs in
carousel.
6. Nick put only birds in .
7. I liked both of
9.
carousel would be different from anyone else’s design. are different.
10. All of
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11. I hope the teacher likes 12.
(her, hers) (his, their) (their, theirs)
own style.
8. Each carousel had
(their, theirs)
(its, their) (Your, Yours) (our, ours)
!
class has worked really hard.
(my, mine) (Our, Ours)
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Grammar: Possessive Pronouns
• Add an apostrophe (’) and an -s to a singular noun to make it possessive. • Add an apostrophe (’) by itself to make most plural nouns possessive. • Add an apostrophe (’) and an -s to form the possessive of plural nouns that do not end in s. • Possessive pronouns do not have apostrophes.
Complete each sentence with the correct possessive noun or pronoun in parentheses. 1. (Ms. Parker’s, Ms. Parkers’) a carousel.
students are designing
2. The students are all drawing (their, their’) animals.
own
3. The (student’s, students’) build a paper carousel.
drawings will be used to
4. We are all using (our, our’) interesting animals.
imaginations to create
5. (My, Mine)
animal is a green-striped tiger with wings. animal is a mix of an iguana and
7. The (carousel’s, carousels’) gold foil.
top will be covered with
8. There will be no other carousel in the world like (ours’, ours) .
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6. (James’, James’s) a giraffe.
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Grammar: Possessive Pronouns
• A possessive pronoun takes the place of a possessive noun. It shows who or what owns something. • Some possessive pronouns are used before nouns. These include my, your, his, her, its, our, your, and their. • Some possessive pronouns can stand alone. These include mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, yours, and theirs. Rewrite this journal entry. Be sure to correct the pronouns and nouns.
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We visited ours relatives on they farm this summer. Mine aunt and uncle raise sheep and make organic cheese. I took many pictures with mine camera. They have three dogs who help herd the sheep. Our dogs back home aren’t as smart as their. One of the dogs may have puppies soon. My aunt checks it’s health every day. Her says she will save the best puppy and it can be our some day.
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A. Write yes if the underlined word is a possessive pronoun. Write no if the underlined word is not a possessive pronoun. 1. Mike Munyak asked kids in his neighborhood to put on a play.
2. The kids became Mike’s actors and actresses. 3. He used some of their ideas to make the play better. 4. The kids felt proud when he used one of theirs. 5. The play’s poster included all of their names. B. Write yes if the underlined word is the correct possessive pronoun. Write no if the underlined word is not the correct possessive pronoun. 6. Our class took a trip to an amusement park. 7. Mine favorite ride is the roller coaster. 8. Cara said that hers is the waterslide. 9. George said his’s is the carousel.
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10. I said I would try their favorites if they would try mine.
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