Saxon genitive

The Saxon genitive

The Saxon genitive is a structure that indicates possession:

FORM

• Add 's after the possessor:
• Mandy's car
• The women's room
• The queen's jewels
• Add 's after the plural and after endings in 's':
• My friends' house
• Her granparents' car
• Lewis' job
• Frances' boat
• Add 's after the possessor's name, or use a possessive pronoun:
• A friend of my mother's (=one of my mother's friends)
• A friend of your teachers' (=one of your teachers' friends)
• Some expression take the possessive form (without the noun):
• We went to Peter's
• At the Simpson's
• At the doctor's
• Macy's

USE

• It tends to be used if possessors are people, animals or institutions:
• the cat's tail
• Mary's supermarket
• the government's proposal
• But remember:
• the leg of the table
• the end of the process
• the boot of the car

VIDEO

EXERCISE

Now try to describe who's who in the British Royal family:

taken from http://www.henry4school.fr/UK/monarchy/pdf/The%20British%20Royal%20Family%20Tree.pdf

And who's who in the Spanish Royal Family?

from bbc.co.uk

JUST SOME EXAMPLES:

Revision of unit 6-4º PDC

These are the three main points included in unit 6 this year:

• vocabulary related to food
• modal verbs: can/can't/must/mustn't/should/shouldn't
• possessive adjectives (my/your/his/her/his/its/our/your/their)
• possessive pronouns (mine/yours/his/hers/its/ours/yours/theirs)

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FOOD




EXERCISES:

• Match the food: fruit
• Vegetables vocabulary
• Match the food: vegetables
• Fast food vocabulary
• Questions about British food
• Exercises: adjectives for food
• Multiple choice: food
• GAME about food

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MODAL VERBS

MODAL VERBS
Modal verbs are commonly used verbs with some special characteristics:

1. Modal verbs do not take "-s" in the third person.
• I can play football.
• My brother should go with you.
• She can't be serious about that.
2. They have their own negative and do not need "do".
• I shouldn't be late
• They can't drive.
• You couldn't swim when you were 3.
3. The don't have all the tenses other verbs have.
1. I will can go.- INCORRECT
2. They shoulded speak to her. - INCORRECT
4. They are always followed by another verb (bare infinitive)

WHICH VERBS ARE MODAL?:

• CAN / CAN'T
• MUST / MUSTN'T
• SHOULD / SHOULDN'T
• NEED / NEEDN'T
• SHALL / SHAN'T
• COULD / COULDN'T
• MAY / MAY NOT
• MIGHT / MIGHTN'T
• WILL / WON'T
• OUGHT TO

EXERCISES:

• Englisch Hilfen: can - can't
• Englisch Hilfen :  can (affirmative/negative/question)
• Englisch Hilfen : must - mustn't
• can - could - be able to
• Exercise: can - must - should
• Exercise: all modals: difficult
• To Learn English: must / can / should
• Learn English Feel Good: can / must / should
• Learn English Feel Good-2: can / must / should 

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POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES AND POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

These exercises will let you revise your subject and determiner personal pronouns:

SUBJECT
These pronouns replace any other subject and they usually go before the verb:

• Are you 15? (= the person I am sepaking to)
• We don't like going to the beach. (=my sister and I)
• They are our best friends. (=Sandra and Lynn)

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

These determiners go before the noun and they tell us who (or what) the object, person... belongs to:

• I have a cat. This is my cat.
• Their homework is really difficult.
• My sister has a boyfriend. Her boyfriend is tall.

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EXERCISES

• subject pronouns
• subject pronouns 2
• what type of pronoun is it?
• possessive adjectives
• possessive adjectives 2
• possessive adjectives 3
• possessive adjectives 4
• possessive adjectives 5
• possessive adjectives 6
• possessive adjectives 7

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POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
These pronouns substitute a complement with a possessive:

• It is my cat. It is mine.
• It is your bag. It is yours.
• Those are her books. They are hers.

EXERCISES

• exercise a4esl.org - choose the right pronoun
• exercise a4esl.org - choose the right pronoun 2
• my english pages - possessive adjectives (my) and pronouns (mine)
• learn English feel good -  write the pronoun
• learn English feel good - write the pronoun 2
• English test - 10 sentences - choose the right pronoun

Possessive adjectives

These exercises will let you revise your subject and determiner personal pronouns:

SUBJECT
These pronouns replace any other subject and they usually go before the verb:

• Are you 15? (= the person I am sepaking to)
• We don't like going to the beach. (=my sister and I)
• They are our best friends. (=Sandra and Lynn)

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

These determiners go before the noun and they tell us who (or what) the object, person... belongs to:

• I have a cat. This is my cat.
• Their homework is really difficult.
• My sister has a boyfriend. Her boyfriend is tall.

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EXERCISES

• subject pronouns
• subject pronouns 2
• what type of pronoun is it?
• possessive adjectives
• possessive adjectives 2
• possessive adjectives 3
• possessive adjectives 4
• possessive adjectives 5
• possessive adjectives 6
• possessive adjectives 7

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POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
These pronouns substitute a complement with a possessive:

• It is my cat. It is mine.
• It is your bag. It is yours.
• Those are her books. They are hers.

EXERCISES

• exercise a4esl.org - choose the right pronoun
• exercise a4esl.org - choose the right pronoun 2
• my english pages - possessive adjectives (my) and pronouns (mine)
• learn English feel good -  write the pronoun
• learn English feel good - write the pronoun 2
• English test - 10 sentences - choose the right pronoun

Saxon genitive

It is a structure that indicates possession:

FORM

• Add 's after the possessor:
• Mandy's car
• The women's room
• The queen's jewels
• Add 's after the plural and after endings in 's':
• My friends' house
• Her granparents' car
• Lewis' job
• Frances' boat
• Add 's after the possessor's name, or use a possessive pronoun:
• A friend of my mother's (=one of my mother's friends)
• A friend of your teachers' (=one of your teachers' friends)
• Some expression take the possessive form (without the noun):
• We went to Peter's
• At the Simpson's
• At the doctor's
• Macy's

USE

• It tends to be used if possessors are people, animals or institutions:
• the cat's tail
• Mary's supermarket
• the government's proposal
• But remember:
• the leg of the table
• the end of the process
• the boot of the car

VIDEO

EXERCISE

Now try to describe who's who in the British Royal family:

taken from http://www.henry4school.fr/UK/monarchy/pdf/The%20British%20Royal%20Family%20Tree.pdf

And who's who in the Spanish Royal Family?

from bbc.co.uk