personal pronouns and possessives: more practice

Forms. There is one mistake in each column. Find the mistakes in columns 2-5 and correct them.
2

myself

me

my

mines

you

you

your

yours

he

him

his

his

himself

she

her

hers

hers

herself

it

it

its

WE

our

our

you

your

yours

them

their

theirs

you

i+s

Lhe\4

itself

theirselves

'Where are your gloves?' 'l've lost its.'

12 'Who did that?' 'lt was ll
13 'Which girl is your sister?' 'That's she in the
1

John and her wife have gone to Greece.

2 This coat is my.

3 Their house is much bigger than our.
4 That dog has hurt it's ear.
5 'What about this music?' 'l likei ............
6 There are five miles to the nearest station.

red dressl

l4

cold again today.

15 'What's her name?' 'Have forgotten.'
ls

16 Lucy broke the leg skiing.

17 'What's the date?' 'ls December

7 We areTuesday.
8 Where's the station?' 'He's over there.' ............
9 Theirwereall late.
10

ourselves

ours

Mixed structures. Correct the mistakes.

> Hr didn't say'Helloi ..F.h.q....

rself

'Did you like France?' 'l thought was wonderful.'

17th.'

18 ls that the my coat?

19 Whos car is this?
20 'Who's that?' 'l am.'

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Reflexives and eoch other. Complete the ca ptions.

iY

tq"

L __l

1
::,

He's

talking to

...................... 2

She's

talking to

.................... 3

They're talking to

.................

r' Mixed pronouns. Put in a personal pronoun (me, you etc), a reflexive pronoun
(myself , yourself etc), each other or nothing (-).
> Shelooked at ..Y9............. and llooked at ..\qf............. butwedidn'tsayanything.

1 When l'm alone I don't always cook for

2 We love
.. very much, but we fight all the time.
3 When he looks at ................... in the mirrot he gets very depressed.
4 Don't help ...........
I want to do it by
5 Anna and I write to ................... every week.
6 The children really enjoyed
.. at your party.
got
7 I'm sorry.l haven't time to teach
.. to cook. You'll have to teach
8 'Can we have some coffee?' 'Sure. Help ..........
9 My girlfriend doesn't speak much ltalian, and I don't speak much Chinese, so we sometimes
trouble understandinS ...................
10 Come in and make
.. comfortable.

192 PERSONAL PRONOUNS;

POSSESSIVES

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p ro n o u n s.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself / herself the best.

(Joseph Cook)

Novels are about other people and poems are about themselves / yourself.
(Philip Larkin)

An egotist: a person more interestedin himself /yourself than in me.

'How do you know you're God?' 'Simple. When I pray to Him I find l'm talking to myself / himself!

(Ambrose Bierce)
(Peter Barnes)

5 We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves / themselves.
(May Lamberton Becker)

You can always get someone to love you

- even if you have to do it ourself / yourself

(Tom Masson)

'iit; Grammar in a text. Choose words from the boxes to complete the text.
each

other

her

My brother and r

his

themselves

its

.........

they

girlfriend have known

but : ...................'ve only been going out together for

her

he

him

she

Before that, he didn't like +

they

their

..........

your

................... for about five years,

six months.

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and

.........

didn't like him, but later 0 .........

became good friends, and started going out together.

her

hers

his

its

it's

our

their

they

they're

very comfortable.
................... both have smallflats. His flat is in the town centre, and e.........
................... is a long way out, and it's not so nice. So they spend most of t0 ................... free
time at r ................... place.
7

he her hers herself him himself its it's

He works in a garage,

touch

rc

each

.. a teacher, but she doesn't let r:..........

and rz
it rs
looks
after
.. car - she

other I my they them their

I like ro
so le ..........

she's

themselves they're

.. both very much, and lthink 17 ................... good for t4.........

.. will stay together.
hope zo

lnternet exercise. Use a search engine (e.9. Google). Which of these three expressions
gets most hits? Can you see why?
"She broke her arml'
"She broke the arml'
"She broke his arml'

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