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A Possessive Adjectives
Possessive adjectives are used to indicate who or what owns something.
This is Its mouth
my bag. He is enjoying is very big.
his ice cream.

It
I He

These are Subject Possessive
your shoes. Pronouns Adjectives
I It My Its
You We Your Our
They
He They His Their
They are listening She Her
You to their teacher.
TASK 1 Underline the correct possessive adjective.

1. The girl is taking (her/his) oath in front of
the principal.
2. I cannot find (my/mine) small flags. Have you It’s is not a possessive
seen them anywhere? pronoun. It’s is the short
3. It is my cat and (its/his) name is Kitty. form of it is and it has. The
4. I cannot remember (he/his) name. possessive adjective its has
5. They decorated (their/them) bicycles with no apostrophe.
small flags.
6. It is raining today, so we need to bring (our/ours) umbrellas.

TASK 2 Complete the dialogue with appropriate possessive adjectives.
Airil: This is the first time the National Day parade will be held in the evening. It
will be followed by the fireworks display. ... theme is really catchy.
Karen: Look at the crowd! Airil, which one of those flag bearers is ... sister?
Airil: She is standing beside ... teacher and carrying ... school flag. Oh, there’s
Aznil, the Form 5 prefect who is holding the school flag.
...
Karen: You’re right. By the way, where are ... small flags? My flags are in ... bag.
Airil: They are here, tucked in ... pocket. Those vintage cars are decked with the
national flag on all sides and ... owners must be proud of their handiwork.
Karen: Let’s get ... flags out and get ready to wave when the parade starts.

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