Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010
Plenty of Prairie
Possessive pronouns
Pronouns
A prairie is mostly flat land covered with tall grass. This state has so much prairie that only about 1 percent of it has forest. This is less than any other state. What state is this?
To answer the question, read each sentence below. Find the possessive pronouns and decide if they are used correctly. If the possessive pronouns are used correctly, write the letter for correct in the space above the sentence number at the bottom of the page. If a possessive pronoun in a sentence is used incorrectly, write the letter for incorrect. You will need to divide the letters into words.
1. Carlos and his family are moving.
H. Correct
N. Incorrect
2. They’re new home is in Oregon.
W. Correct
K. Incorrect
3. Carlos and his sister helped pack their family’s car.
O. Correct
K. Incorrect
4. His suitcase was bigger than his sister’s.
A. Correct
S. Incorrect
5. But hers had more room inside.
R. Correct
U. Incorrect
6. “Where is the box with you’re CDs and videos?” Carlos’s father asked him.
R. Correct
D. Incorrect
7. “Its already in the car next to my suitcase,” said Carlos.
M. Correct
T. Incorrect
8. “Mine things are already packed, too,” said his sister.
S. Correct
N. Incorrect