All personal and possessive pronouns – Exercise 424

Drag each element from the list below to the right gap.

Please stop questioning

don't know because it is beyond

competence.

Will people soon be able to clone

Are these your kids' toys? Yes, these are

themselves

they

their

them

theirs

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Personal and possessive pronouns in one table

Let's sum up all personal and possessive pronouns in one table.

Personal pronouns		Possessive determiners	Possessive pronouns	Reflexive pronouns
Subject	Object	As an adjective + noun	Without a noun	Reflexive pronouns
# They have a dog.	# The dog loves them.	# It's their dog.	# The dog is theirs.	# They care for the dog themselves.
I	me	my	mine	myself
you	you	your	yours	yourself
he	him	his	his	himself
she	her	her	hers	herself
it	it	its	its	itself
we	us	our	ours	ourselves
they	them	their	theirs	themselves

Pay attention

His and its have the same form in the third and fourth columns — as a possessive adjective and as a possessive pronoun.