1. Author: James Rumford Genre: Biography
Big Question: How can knowing another language create understanding?

2. Grammar Possessive Pronouns

3. Possessive Pronouns
Jean-Francois studied hieroglyphs and learned their secrets.
The word their is a possessive pronoun. It is used in place of the possessive noun hieroglyphs.

4. Pronouns and Antecedents
Possessive pronouns show who or what owns, or possesses, something. My, mine, your, yours, her, hers, his, its, our, ours, their, and theirs are possessive pronouns.

5. Pronouns and Antecedents
Use my, your, her, our, and their before nouns.
I study at my desk.
Claire read her book.
Experts shared their discoveries.

6. Pronouns and Antecedents
Use mine, yours, hers, ours, and theirs alone.
The desk is mine.
The book was hers.
The discoveries were theirs.

7. Pronouns and Antecedents
His and its can be used both before nouns and alone.
Jean-Francois did his work.
The work was his.
The Egyptian alphabet revealed its secrets.
The secrets were its.

8. Pronouns and Antecedents
Do not use an apostrophe with a possessive pronoun.

9. Pronouns and Antecedents Find the possessive pronoun in each sentence.
Ancient Egyptians left many samples of their writing.
their
The Egyptian alphabet was very different from ours.
ours

10. Pronouns and Antecedents Find the possessive pronoun in each sentence.
Some of its letters were pictures of animals.
its
Jean-Francois concentrated on his work for years.
his

11. Pronouns and Antecedents Find the possessive pronoun in each sentence.
I have written about him in my research paper. my

12. Pronouns and Antecedents Choose the correct possessive pronoun in ( ).
(Our, Ours) class is studying ancient Egypt.
Our
Maria told us about hieroglyphs in (her, hers) oral report.
her

13. Pronouns and Antecedents Choose the correct possessive pronoun in ( ).
Julio and Pam made a model of the Rosetta Stone for (their, theirs) presentation.
their
I wrote about Jean-Francois Champollion for (my, mine).
mine

14. Pronouns and Antecedents Choose the correct possessive pronoun in ( ).
What will you do for (you, yours)?
yours