Grammar Practice - Herbert Puchta, Jeff Stranks, Peter Lewis-Jones 2012

Possessives

This is how you express your relationship to somebody or say that something belongs to someone or something.

Dawn is my/your/her/his/our/their sister.

I'm the singer in a band. Its name is Be Bop.

1 Underline the correct word.

What’s you / your favourite band?

Elastic are ¹I I my favourite band. ² I / My have got all of ³ they I their CDs. ’⁴ Us I Our name is Elastic’ is the best. ⁵ It I Its cover has got a crocodile on it. The singer is Mary-Lou. ⁶ She I Her is very good.⁷ She I Her brother Dan is the guitarist.⁸ He I His has got a lot of guitars. ⁹ He I His favourite guitar is a 1960’s Gibson. ¹⁰ It's I Its beautiful. Elastic have two drummers. ¹¹ They I Their names are Nigel and Lucy and ¹² they I their are twins. ¹³ I / My brother Ben loves Elastic too. ¹⁴ We I Our have got tickets for ¹⁵ they I their show on Tuesday. The tickets are a present from ¹⁶ we / our dad. ¹⁷ I / My dad is the best.

2 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

your

their

my

his

its

her

3 Complete the sentences with the possessives.

1 Lillian Britney Spears is my favourite singer.

Janice For me too. ... new CD is great.

2 Jim Why is Dan nervous?

Ian ... driving test is today.

3 Henry Who’s that over there? I can’t see.

Olivia Paul and Liam and ... little sister, I think.

4 Jeff The new zoo is great.

Tina Yes and ... baby elephant is so nice.