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personal pronouns and possessives: more practice

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

1 2 3 4 5

1 me my mines myself
you you your yours yourself
he him his his himself
she her hers hers herself

it it its - itself
we our our ours ourselves
you you your yours yourselves

its theu) them their theirs theirselves

^ Mixed structures. Correct the mistakes.

► Her didn't say'Hello'. 11 'Where are your gloves?' 'I've lost its.' .....

1 John and her wife have gone to Greece................. 12 'Who did that?''It was I.' ..............
2 This coat is my.................. 13 'Which girl is your sister?' 'That's she in the
3 Their house is much bigger than our. ............. red dress.' ..............
4 That dog has hurt it's ear. .............. 14 Is cold again today..................

5 'What about this music?''I like.' .............. 15 'What's her name?' 'Have forgotten.' ......
6 There are five miles to the nearest station. 16 Lucy broke the leg skiing..................
......................................................................................... 17 'What's the date?' 'Is December 17th.'
7 We are Tuesday..................
8 Where's the station?''He's over there.' .............. 18 Is that the my coat?
9 Their were alllate.................. 19 Who's car is this? .
10 'Did you like France?''I thought was wonderful.' 20 'Who'sthat?' 'lam.'

^ Reflexives and each other. Complete the captions.
Q

1 He's talking t o ......................... 2 She's talking to ....................... 3 They're talking t o .....

Q Mixed pronouns. Put in a personal pronoun [me, you etc), a reflexive pronoun
[myself, yourself etc), each other or nothing (-).

► She looked at ..ifyV?................ and I looked at ..h?.r............... but we didn't say anything.
1 When I'm alone I don't always cook fo r.......................

2 We love........................very much, but we fight all the time.
3 When he looks a t...................... in the mirror, he gets very depressed.
4 Don't help........................ I want to do it b y.......................
5 Anna and I write to .......................every week.
6 The children really enjoyed........................at your party.
7 I'm sorry. I haven't got 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 Italian, and I don't speak much Chinese, so we sometimes have
trouble understanding.......................
10 Come in and make.......................comfortable.

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