TOPICAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE UNIT 7 Possessive Adjectives; Possessives with ‘s

 

TOPICAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE

UNIT 7

Possessive Adjectives; Possessives with ‘s

EXERCISE A Choose the correct possessive form or possessive adjective and write its number in the brackets. 1 What are you doing? I'm looking for __________ game. (1) Tom (2) Toms (3) Tom’s (4) Toms’ 2 This is Sally's bedroom and these are __________ books. (1) her (2) his (3) she (4) hers 3 That is Paul and Daisy's teacher. __________ name is Mr Afandi. (1) Her (2) His (3) Their (4) Our 4 This is a picture of the twins and this is __________ baby sister. (1) his (2) her (3) their (4) its 5 My family and I live in Singapore. __________ apartment is near the city centre. (1) Her (2) His (3) Their (4) Our 6 I got 90%! What was __________ score? (1) your (2) its (3) our (4) my 7 New York is famous for __________ skyscrapers. (1) his (2) their (3) our (4) its 8 The school keeps all the __________ records on computer now. (1) children’s (2) childrens (3) childrens’ (4) children 9 Remind your mothers and fathers that it is __________ Evening tomorrow. (1) Parent’s (2) Parents (3) Parents’ (4) Parent 10 __________ brother has just started school? (1) Sally (2) Sally’s (3) Sallys (4) Sallys’ 11 Which is __________ classroom? (1) Mr Affandi’s (2) Mr Affandis (3) Mr Affandi (4) Mr Affandis’ 12 __________ desks are at the front of the classroom. (1) Paul and Daisy (2) Paul’s and Daisy (3) Paul’s and Daisy’s (4) Paul and Daisy’s EXERCISE B Fill in the gaps with the correct possessive form or possessive adjective in brackets. Tutankhamun Tutankhamun is probably the (1)___________(worlds' / world's) best known pharaoh. He began (2) ___________ (its / his) rule when he was only nine years old. (3) ___________ (Its / His) family background is not very clear. There is an inscription which calls him a (4) ___________ (kings' / king's) son, but nobody knows which king it means. He married a princess, one of another (5) ___________ (pharaoh's / pharaohs) daughters. (6) ___________ (His / Her) name was Akhesenpaaten. They had two children but sadly they died. (7) ___________ (Their /His) preserved bodies were discovered in Tutankhamun's tomb. Tutankhamun ruled for eight to ten years, helped by (8) ___________ (his / their) advisers. He died when he was about nineteen years old. Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by the archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. He immediately told (9) ___________ (their / his) patron, Lord Carnavon, and together they entered the tomb for the first time in 3000 years. (10) ___________ (Carters' / Carter's) team worked carefully, and in 1923 they entered the inner room of the (11) ___________ (king's / king) tomb and found beautiful treasures. This created huge interest in all the (12) ___________ (pharaohs' / pharaoh's) tombs. Since then the treasure of Tutankhamun has been seen by millions of people all over the world.   EXERCISE C Fill in the gaps with the correct possessive form or possessive adjective from the box. You have to use all the possessive adjectives more than once. brother’s cleopatra’s pharaohs’ Rome’s her his their         Queen Cleopatra Cleopatra was a queen of ancient Egypt. At first she ruled with (1) _________father. After (2) _________death, she eoruled with her brother Ptolemy XIII. (3) _____ rule was not very happy as they did not like each other. Cleopatra wanted to rule alone so she stopped putting her (4) _________name on official papers and then she took (5) _________face off the coins. In the end she got the support of Julius Caesar of Rome and took over the country. After the murder of Julius Caesar, she married Mark Antony, one of the greatest soldiers from Rome. But the Romans did not want Antony to rule Egypt. They sent (6) _____ navy and army to fight him. Antony lost the battle and died. After that, Cleopatra killed herself. With (7) _______ death, the thousands of years of the (8) _________rule was over. (9) _____ three children were taken to Rome. Then Egypt came under (10) _________rule.

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