Exercises. Complete the following sentences, using one of the possessive pronouns: mine, ours, yours, his, hers, theirs.
Example:
These are my shoes. They’re _______. ==> These are my shoes. They’re mine.
1. This is my sandwich. It’s mine.
2. That is our dog. It’s ours.
3. This is your sweater. It’s yours.
4. These are his books. They’re his.
5. That is their car. It’s theirs.
6. These are her sunglasses. They’re hers.
7. That is their house. It’s theirs.
8. This is our new sofa. It’s ours.
9. That’s my laptop. It’s mine.
10. This is your pen. It’s yours.
11. That is his cell phone. It’s his.
12. Those are her gym shoes. They’re hers.
Exercises. Choose the right form of the possessive.
Example:
Those are not (my/mine) shoes. (My/Mine) are brown. ==> Those are not my shoes. Mine are brown.
1. I’ve met her parents, but I don’t know their names.
2. At whose house do you want to have the surprise party? Yours or ours?
3. Be sure to take your project home. I’ve got mine.
4. My dog is smarter than yours.
5. I took the money out of my pocket and put it in her purse.
6. The Smiths had some old books, so we sold theirs, along with ours, at a garage sale.
7. Whose backpack is this? Yours or hers?
8. The Jones send their children to camp every summer.
9. The teacher reminded us to bring all our books home to study over the holidays.
10. Your garden is bigger than mine, isn’t it?
Exercises. Complete the sentences using the phrase “friend(s) of mine / yours,” etc.
Example:
I saw an old _______ the other day. ==> I saw an old friend of mine the other day.
1. After the show, Jack and Jill went out with some friends of theirs.
2. Mother had lunch with a high school friend of hers.
3. If you gossip about my brother, you’re no friend of mine!
4. When we went out for a walk, we ran into a friend of ours.
5. Once a month, my uncle goes fishing with a friend of his.
6. I was just writing a letter to a friend of mine.
7. Grandmother and Grandfather went on a cruise with some friends of theirs.
8. My sister got into a fight with a friend of hers, and now they’re not talking.
9. Aunt Molly got the recipe from a friend of hers.
10. We asked a friend of ours to take care of our dog while we were on vacation.