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Life

Elementary Unit 1b
Possessive ’s and possessive adjectives

A: Welcome to your new house!


B: I’m so excited! Are they my keys?
A: Yes, they’re Mr and Mrs Brown’s
old keys and now they’re your keys.

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Use possessive ’s and possessive adjectives to talk about objects, people and places.

Possessive ’s
• Add ’s to singular noun: My sister’s keys.
• Add ’ to a plural noun: My sisters’ house.
It’s Karen’s phone. Emily is my brother’s friend.
TIP ’s is also the contracted form of is: It’s = It is: It’s my parents’ house.

Possessive adjectives

Subject pronoun Possessive adjective


I my It’s my laptop.
you your Where’s your passport?
he his His parents are Italian.
she her Her father’s from Argentina.
it its Venice is famous for its canals.
we our Our car is a BMW.
they their Their daughter’s a doctor.

A possessive adjective has one form for singular and plural: his phone, his parents.

 Key vocabulary    Everyday objects: credit card, glasses, keys, laptop, passport, ticket
People in your life: mother, father, parents, son, daughter, chidren, husband, wife, brother, sister

Exercises
1 What is the ’s in the underlined words? Write is or P (for possessive ’s).
1 Where is Lisa’s mobile? P 3 I think I have Sue’s book. Where is she?
It’s on the table. is She’s on holiday.
2 Is this Harry’s laptop? 4 This book’s my book.
No, this is Tim’s. No, it’s my book. My name’s on it.

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Elementary Unit 1b
Exercises

2 Match the person to the object and complete the sentences, using possessive ’s.

1 mobile 2 books 3 sunglasses

Harry

Lisa

Tim

4 camera 5 laptop 6 trainers

1 It’s Harry’s mobile. 3 They’re . 5 It’s .


2 They’re Lisa’s books. 4 It’s . 6 They’re .
3 Complete the text with his, her, their or its.
Ana’s Argentinian but 1
husband, Jacob, isn’t from Argentina.
2
father’s Nigerian and
3
mother’s Scottish. Ana has a
sister and a brother. 4 sister’s
a teacher and 5
brother’s a
doctor. He’s married. 6 wife’s
Italian. They have two children: a son and a
daughter. 7 daughter’s ten and
8
son’s six. They also have a
dog. 9 name is Rex.
4 Choose the correct word.
1 We / Our new motorbike is fantastic. 5 What’s it’s / its name?
2 She / Her is a doctor. 6 We / Our have a house near here.
3 Where are you / your glasses? 7 He / His mobile is on the table.
4 He / His father is from the USA. 8 I / My mother is from Madrid.
5 Write the sentences with possessive adjectives.
1 It’s Harry’s mobile. It’s his mobile.
2 They’re Jane and Julie’s books. They’re their books.
3 It’s Lisa’s laptop.
4 They’re my parent’s passports.
5 It’s my brother’s phone.
6 It’s my brothers’ house.

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