Pronouns and determiners

Remember:

Personal Subject PronounsPersonal Object PronounsPossessive

DeterminersPossessive PronounsReflexive
PronounsIMeMyMineMyselfYouYouYourYourYourselfHeHimHisHisHimselfSheHe
rHerHerHerselfItItItsItsItselfWeUsOurOursOurselvesYouYouYourYoursYourselves
TheyThemTheirTheirsThemselves
Idioms with Reflexive Pronouns
We enjoyed ourselves at the party. (We had a good time)
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2. I didnt have an umbrella, so my mother gave me her / hers.
3. Thats not my / mine car. My / Mine is red.
4. Our / Ours house is bigger than your / yours.
5. Theyve got two dogs but I dont know their / theirs names.
6. Paul has got a big flat. Its / Its windows face the north.
7. Ive got two sisters. Their / Theirs bicycles are over there.
A. Finish the sentences with a personal object pronoun.
1. Shakiras fans want to talk to her but she doesnt want to talk to ___________.
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yesterday.
The weather __________________ terrible yesterday.
We ____________________ the party last Saturday. It was really boring.
We ____________________ to school yesterday. It was a national holiday.
Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple. What other jobs did
you have before you became a writer?
Aside from babysitting, I _____________ (get) my first job when I ___________ (be)
fifteen years old, cleaning house for one of my moms friends. When I
__________ (be) fifteen I ____________ (work) in a snack bar at a community
college, and I also ______________ (scrape) gutters during the summer.
During the school year of my junior and senior years at the University of Illinois,
I ___________ (earn) money by working as a secretary in the Illinois Union for the
Panhellenic Association.

After graduation, I ________________ (teach) piano to 25 children and adults. I

______________ (begin) writing my first book while also doing two part-time jobs,
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The software company Quark Inc. ______________ (hire) me away from personal
Publishing, where I __________________ (manage) the editorial staff in the
Creative Services department for a year and a half.
I _________________ (found) Rainwater Press in July 1992.

Make the sentences negative.

Pedro exercised every day when he was younger.
There was a big supermarket at the corner.
1. My grandfather hunted when he was young.
2. She swam in the sea in the summer.
3. She began
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A. Complete the sentences with one of the following verbs in the

1. The bus left at 9.00 a.m.
2. I ate a bowl of soup for dinner.
3. My brother woke up at 10.00 a.m.
4. The Jervises lived in Liverpool a year ago.
5. I needed a calculator for the maths test.
6. The taxi stopped near school.
7. I had lunch with a friend of mine.
8. Yesterday I watched the news and the soap opera.
9. My brother took engineering at college.
10. They went to Canada last summer.

Noun Endings
Nouns can be formed by adding a suffix to a verb, an adjective or
existing noun.
There are certain word endings that show that a word is a noun.
Many nouns can be recognized by their endings. Typical noun endings
include.
-er/-orActor, singer, waiter, writer-ismCriticism, egotism,