Possessive pronouns and adjectives

• English
• Secundair onderwijs

Possessive

Book page 100 

exercise 17

How can you say that something is your possession?

I have a bag -                               this is my bag.

You have a cat -                           that is your cat.

He has a car -                               it is his car.

She has a book -                         it is her book.

The dog has a bed -                   it is its bed.

We have a flat -                           it is our flat.

They have a daughter -             she is their daughter.

We are talking about possessive adjectives.  They belong next to a noun in a sentence. 

I have a bag -                                           this is mine.

You have a cat -                                       that cat is yours.

He has a car -                                           it is his.

She has a book -                                      it is hers.

We have a flat -                                        it is ours.

They have a daughter -                          she is theirs.

Possessive pronouns also say who something belongs to, but they replace the noun. So we use them alone. 

We can use possessive pronouns and nouns after of. We can say:

Susan is one of my friends. > Susan is a friend of mine.

                                                             (NOT Susan is a friend of me.)

I am one of Susan's friends. > I am a friend of Susan's.

                                                              (NOT I am a friend of Susan.)

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PLURALS

Regular nouns: (-s)

* To make regular nouns plural, add ‑s to the end.

Examples:

cat – cats

dog - dogs

house – houses 

Regular nouns: (-es) "hissing sound"

* If the singular noun ends in ‑s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, or -z, add ‑es to the end to make it plural.

Examples:

bus – buses

marsh – marshes

lunch – lunches

tax – taxes

blitz – blitzes

Letter -y:

* If a singular noun ends in ‑y and the letter before the -y is a consonant, change the ending to ‑ies to make the noun plural.

Examples:

baby babies

city – cities

puppy – puppies

puppy's - Is singular in English! 

Example: A puppy's life (Is ONE puppy!)

Spelling (-y)

If the singular noun ends in -y and the letter before the -y is a vowel, simply add an -s to make it plural.

Examples:

ray – rays

play - plays

boy – boys

toy - toys

Letter -o:

If the singular noun ends in ‑o, preceded by a consonant, add ‑es to make it plural.

Examples:

hero - heroes

potato – potatoes

tomato – tomatoes

Exceptions:

photo – photos

piano – pianos

halo – halos

Spelling change: (-f /-fe)

* If the noun ends with ‑f or ‑fe, the -f is often changed to ‑ve before adding the -s to form the plural version.

Examples:

life - lives 

wife - wives

wolf - wolves

But:

roof – roofs

belief – beliefs

chef – chefs

chief – chiefs

Irregular plurals 

child – children

goose – geese

man – men

woman – women

tooth – teeth

foot – feet

mouse – mice

person – people

ox - oxen

policeman - policemen

fish - fish 

spacecraft - spacecraft

louse – lice

Unchanging Nouns:

Singular           Plural

aircraft             aircraft

bass                  bass

bison                bison

elk                      elk

moose             moose

shrimp             shrimp

spacecraft     spacecraft

swine               swine

trout                 trout

sheep – sheep

series – series

species – species

deer – deer

cattle - cattle

Explanation of regular plural nouns:

Plural of:

1. shoe
2. shoes
3. shoe's
4. shoos

Plural of: baby

1. baby's
2. babies
3. babie's
4. babys

Plural of:

1. puppies
2. puppy's
3. puppys
4. puppen

Plural of:

1. tomatos
2. tomaten
3. tomato's
4. tomatoes

Plural of:

1. heroes
2. hero's
3. heros
4. held

Plural of: wife

1. wifes
2. ladies
3. wife's
4. wives

Plural of:

1. ganzen
2. goosen
3. gooses
4. geese

Plural of:

1. ganzen
2. goosen
3. gooses
4. geese

Plural of:

1. knife's
2. knifes
3. knives
4. kniven

Plural of:

1. child's
2. childs
3. kinderen
4. children

Choose the correct one:
Dit is het boek van mijn zussen.

1. This is my sisters' book
2. This is my sister book's
3. This is my sisters's book
4. This is my sisters book

Choose the correct option:
Dat is de telefoon van Sami

1. That is Samis phone
2. That is Sami's phone
3. That is Samis' phone

Choose the correct option:
Dat zijn de schoenen van mijn ouders

1. Those are my parents shoes
2. Those are my parents's shoes
3. Those are my parents' shoes
4. Those are the shoes of my parents

Choose the correct option:
Dit zijn de voeten van Michael

1. These are Michaels' feet
2. These are Michael's feet
3. These are Michaels feet
4. These are the feet of Michael

Choose the correct option:
Dat is het boek van Tess

1. that is Tess's book
2. that is Tess book
3. that is Tes'ss book

I want to go to London and visit.....parks and theaters.

1. his
2. its
3. her
4. their

Onzijdige pronoun = its

Dus voor een stad bijvoorbeeld

Bijv. I love Berlin and its graffiti murals. 

Where are the vowels?

1. a,e,i,o,u,y
2. m,n,p,k,l,t

Where are the consonants?

1. s,d,f,g
2. h,j,k
3. a,e,i
4. o,u,y

This car goes 90 miles ....... hour

1. an
2. a
3. an, want het is een klinkerklank de h is 'stil'
4. a want het begint met een medeklinkerklank

There is ......whole universe to discover!

1. a
2. an

I like Groningen because it has ......university.

1. a, want begint met medeklinker klank
2. an, want begint met klinkerklank

Choose the correct option:
De ramen van het huis

1. the windows of the house
2. the house's windows
3. the house' windows

Choose the correct option:
De kleuren van de muren

1. the wall's colours
2. the colours of the walls
3. the walls' colours

Choose the correct one:
Het dak van het huis

1. the roof of the house
2. The house's roof
3. the houses' roof

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