🎒 my, your, his and her
📖 In short
To say “my book” or “his bag” we put a word before the noun that shows who owns it: my book, his bag. It doesn't change with the thing, only with the owner, so it's easier than French!
🔎 The lesson
1 The table
| Pronoun | Possessive | Example |
|---|---|---|
| I | my | my pen |
| you | your | your pen |
| he | his | his pen |
| she | her | her pen |
| it | its | its tail |
| we | our | our house |
| they | their | their toys |
2 his or her?
It depends on the owner: a boy's book is his book, and a girl's book is her book, whatever the book.
- Sami is reading his book.Sami is reading his book.
- Lina is reading her book.Lina is reading her book.
3 its without an apostrophe
its is for things and animals: The cat is licking its paw. But it's is short for it is.
💡 Watch out!
- their, there and they're sound almost the same, but mean different things: belonging to them, in that place, they are.
🧩 Test yourself
1 Lina loves ... cat.
2 We clean ... room.
3 The bird opens ... wings.
→ Pronouns in English← this, that, these and those