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dress is it?
Whose

clothes are dresses and her son’s are trainers.
Bart’s favourite food

is ice-cream.
Hot chocolate is one child’s favourite drink.
The father’s favourite clothes are jeans.
Homer’s favourite food is pizza.
The eight year old’s favourite drink is milk.
The children’s mother likes bananas.
One of the family’s favourite clothes are T-shirts.
Coffee is Homer’s favourite drink. His wife’s is orange juice.
The girl’s favourite food is cheese.

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before a noun to show who something belongs to:
It’s my

book.

Possessive pronouns:

Can take the place of the possessive adjective and noun:
The book is mine.

To ask about possession use the question word, Whose:

To talk about possession, add ’s to the end of a name/noun:

If the name/noun ends in an ‘s’, add the apostrophe (’) after the ‘s’:

Whose book is that?

It’s Laura’s book.

It’s James’ book.

the table twice. Fill in one table with information about

your group. But don’t write any names in your table.

OUR GROUP

papers. Guess who likes what. Ask questions to the other

group to write names and complete the empty table.

Whose favourite food is chocolate?

I think chocolate is Susan’s
favourite food.

No, it’s not Susan. Martin’s favourite food is chocolate.

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