[F-E] Possessives

LET'S READ! 📖

Direction: Read the short paragraph then answer the questions being asked.

CHEF DAVID

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My name is David. I live in New Jersey, in the United States. I work at my father's bakery. My great grandfather, Francisco, came here from Italy in 1902. Francisco's brother arrived two years later. At first, my great grandmother, Linda, did not want to leave her parents' home in Italy. But she loved getting my great-grandfather's letters, and finally she decided to come. She came in 1905 with their young children . The family was happy to be together again. The family had little money. Francisco's first jobs were selling fruit and building roads. They worked very hard to save money, and in 1915 they bought their first little home. They were happy that their children's future was more certain.

QUESTIONS:

1. Where is David from?

2. What year was his family together again?

3. What were Francisco's first jobs?

LET'S UNDERSTAND! 📚

I. Possessive 's

1. Add 's to a singular noun to mean "belongs to".

Example:

My father's bakery.
Emil's brother.

2. After a plural noun which ends in 's, just add ( ' ).

Example:

Her parents' home.

3. Add 's to irregular plural nouns (which do not end in -s)

Example:

Their children's future.

4. We can use 's without a following noun, for example when we answer questions with Whose?

Example:

A: "Whose bakery is it?

B: "It's my father's."

5. When there are two nouns, we usually add 's to the second noun.

Example:

It's my mother and father's bakery. (The bakery belongs to both my mother and father.)

6. When a name ends in 's we still add 's.

Example:

Luis's house.

II. Whose?, My, Mine

1. Use Whose? to ask who something belongs to.

Example:

A: "Whose bag is this?"

B: It's Julie's.

2. Possessive adjectives my, your, his, our, their are used with a noun.

Example:

My bag is black.
Can I have your phone number?
The boy doesn't have his bag.
The woman has lost her wallet.
Can we have our bags, please?
That's their little girl.

3. Possessive pronoun mine, yours, his, ours, theirs are used without a noun.

Example:

That's not mine.
Do you have yours?
The boy doesn't have his.
The woman has lost hers.
Can we have ours?
That's theirs.

I	my bag	It's mine.
You	your book	It's yours.
He	his skateboard	It's his.
She	her number	It's hers.
It	its name	---
We	our house	It's ours.
They	their car	It's theirs.

NOTES

It's is different from its.
It's a dog. (it is)

📍 What's its name? (What's the dog's name?)

LET'S PRACTICE! 📝
Direction: Describe the interests of each family member in your family using the possessives. You have to use at least three possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, its, our, their), and two possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs).

Example:

There are four people in my family. My mother is a housewife. She likes gardening, and she spends her afternoons in her garden.

My father is always busy. He is a businessman. Most of the time, he is in front of his computer.

I have a twin brother, and we always share things. He borrows mine, and I borrow his.

We spend our free time playing video games at home, and we sometimes invite our friends to our house to play, especially on weekends.

Now, it's your turn.

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