Grammar reference and exercises

1. Pronouns

Personal		Possessive adjectives	Possessive pronouns	Reflexive-Emphatic pronouns
Before verbs as subjects	After verbs as objects	Followed by nouns	Not followed by nouns
I	Me	My	Mine	Myself
You	You	Your	Yours	Yourself
He	Him	His	His	Himself
She	Her	Her	Hers	Herself
It	It	Its	—	Itself
We	Us	Our	Ours	Ourselves
You	You	Your	Yours	Yourselves
They	Them	Their	Theirs	Themselves

NOTE: Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns express possession. Possessive Adjectives go before nouns, whereas Possessive Pronouns do not go before nouns: e.g. This is her jacket. It’s hers.

1.1 Write the correct possessive adjectives for these sentences:

1. These are my parents. (I)

2. I've got ______ watch. (he)

3. Is this ______ car? (you)

4. Do they like ______ new house? (she)

5. Have you met ______ teacher? (they)

6. Who's got ______ money? (I)

7. I don't like ______ teacher. (we)

8. Have you got ______ passport? (you)

9. He forgot ______ keys. (he)

10. They changed ______ hotel. (they)

11. She gave the letter to ______ secretary. (she)

12. There's something wrong with ______ car. (I)

13. They're having a party in ______ garden. (they)

14. Where's ______ pen? (I)

15. I like ______ jacket. (You)

1.2 Write the correct possessive adjective or pronoun for these sentences:

1. Whose camera is this? Is it yours ? (you)

2. Excuse me, those are our seats. (we)

3. Is it _____ suitcase or ______? (you, he)

4. Has the dog had ______ food? (it)

5. They're not ______ keys – they're ______. (I/she)

6. I don't think its ______ room: I think it's ______. (you/they)

7. The police asked me for ______ address. (I)

8. Have you got ______ pen, or would you like to borrow ______? (you/I)

9. ______ garden is bigger than ______. (they/we)

10. I think this is ______ book. Oh no, it's ______. (I/you)

11. The decision is ______. (they)

12. The cat wants ______ dinner. (it)

13. You know it's not ______ money. It's ______. (you/I)

14. It isn't ______ car, it's ______. (he/she)

15. It wasn't ______ mistake, it was ______. (I/they)

16. Have you met ______ mother? (they)

17. ______ parents say the decision is ______. (she/they)

18. ______ brother hasn't got a phone, so he uses ______. (I/we)

19. ______ car wasn't working, so I used ______. (I/he)

20. ______ house is smaller than ______. (we/they)

2. Nouns

A noun can be countable or uncountable: e.g. I eat a banana every day. I like bananas. (A countable noun can be singular or plural.) I eat rice every day. I like rice. (An uncountable noun has only one form). Here are some uncountable nouns:

accommodation, advice, baggage, behavior, bread, chaos, damage, furniture, information, luck, luggage, news, permission, progress, scenery, traffic, weather, work, etc.

2.1 Write “C” for countable and “U” for uncountable nouns:

apple; water; boy; milk; table; pen;

bread; cup; computer; money; cheese; tooth;

car; grass; person; road; chair; bicycle; hand; flour; information; butter; sugar; tree;

garden; book; news; bus; wine; house.

2.2 Write the plurals of the words given in brackets to complete these sentences:

1. Would you bring the bottle and some glasses, please? (glass)

2. We cut the cake into _____. (half)

3. We bought some _____ to eat with our _____. (tomato/sandwich)

4. They caught several _____ that afternoon. (fish)

5. It was a shop selling _____ and _____. (stereo/video)

6. Would you like some of these _____? (potato)

7. We saw a cartoon about _____ and _____. (cat/mouse)

8. All the _____ had different coloured _____. (house/roof)

9. It was autumn, and the _____ were falling. (leaf)

10. Did you make these _____? (handkerchief)

11. We use several _____ for painting the _____. (process/car)

12. They have some _____ and a few _____. (chicken/sheep)

13. They visited several _____ that night. (disco)

14. I've read her _____, but I haven't seen any of her _____. (book/play)

15. I bought some _____ for the _____. (shelf/glass)

16. There were _____ of _____ in the factory. (thousand/box)

17. The _____ went in one door and the _____ went in the other. (man/woman)

18. They have a lot of _____ at the moment. (worry)

19. Would you bring the _____ and _____? (knife/fork)

20. The _____ chased the _____ for several miles. (wolf/deer)