Possessive Pronouns

Do you share a bedroom with ____ sister?

• your

• yours

• you

• you're

Answer explanation

Remember, if you use the noun "sister" then you can't say "yours" because that's a possessive pronoun and replaces the noun. And "you're" is the contraction of the verb "you are"

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

Reorder the following

• or

• my

• pen

• Is this

• yours?

Answer explanation

"my pen" possessive adjective + noun

"yours" possessive pronoun - it doesn't have a noun.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

Match the possessive adjective with the possessive pronoun

• Mine

• Our car

• Yours

• Her sandwich

• His

• Your phone

• Hers

• My book

• Ours

• His dog

Answer explanation

Remember, the possessive pronoun "absorbs" the noun:

My book = Mine

This is my book = This is mine.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

Reorder the following

• this

• ?

• is

• Whose

• book

Answer explanation

Whose is the Wh- word we use to ask about possession:

Whose book is this?

It's Pepito's book.

It's his.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

This is not my phone, I think it is _____

• her

• him

• hers

• she

Answer explanation

"hers" = "her book"

Remember that the possessive pronoun (hers) "absorbs" the noun (book)

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1D

My parents bought me and my brother a computer. So the computer is ______

• us

• ours

• our

• we

Answer explanation

"ours" = "our computer"

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

I don't like ______ bike, I prefer mine.

• theirs

• they

• they're

• their

Answer explanation

"their" is a possessive adjective, so you need a noun:

"their bike"

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D