Summary
A. The passage discusses the concept of possessives through the context of a family-owned fish farm called Muradnagar Motsho Khamar. The farm is owned by the narrator's father, Alimuzzaman, and his friend, Mr. Mrinal. It employs local neighbors and caters to village residents and stores in Dhaka. The narrator expresses pride and dreams of contributing to the business. The passage includes various examples of possessive adjectives, pronouns, and forms, elaborating on their uses in sentences.
Activities Overview:
- Activity 1: Fill in blanks with possessive adjectives, emphasizing personal connections and belongings.
- Activity 2: Complete a conversation with appropriate possessive adjectives and pronouns between friends discussing a garden project.
- Activity 3: Help Mita and Imran complete their conversation about packing for a trip, focusing on possessive forms.
- Activity 4: Rewrite sentences to incorporate possessives where necessary, such as transforming statements about possessions into possessive forms.
A. Read the following passage and notice the use of possessives.
We have a small farm in our village. My father and his friend Mr. Mrinal own the farm. The name of the farm is Muradnagar Motsho Khamar. My father's name is Alimuzzaman. Our farm is a fish farm. Many of our neighbours are employed there. The customers are our village people, some nearby stores and also some big department stores in Dhaka city. All the members of our family work for our business. Mr. Mrinal's family is also spending much time for it. The condition of the business is really good. We are really proud of our business. Working for the growth of the business is the dream of mine. Our neighbours' families will be benefitted by that.
Look at the words in the text and see the different types of possessive in the following chart.
| Possessive adjectives | Possessive pronouns | Possessive with's or s' | Possessive with of |
| my our your his their | mine ours yours his/hers/its theirs | father's Mr. Mrinal's neighbours' | of the farm of the business |
Possessive adjectives
Possessive adjectives are words that go before nouns to talk about-
- belongings: I want to complete my homework first.
- relationship: Mahin says that his mother is a banker.
- parts of the body: Rimu has broken her leg.
- things that are connected with us: We have planted fifty coconut trees in our school.
In the above examples, 'my', 'his', 'her' and 'our' are possessive pronouns because they show possession.
Activity 1
Now read the following text and fill in the gaps with possessive adjective.
_____ father came to this city forty years ago. He was quite a young man then. _______ dream was to run a business here in this small town and live happily. _________ difficult now to understand how small this city was forty years ago. I can't imagine _______ beauty either _______ father brought all __________ family members in a rented house. They moved from ________ village home. Can you think about _________ hopes and anxieties during the initial days?
Possessive pronoun
- We use possessive pronoun to talk about something that belongs to us or is connected with us, It is usually used at the end of a sentence and is not followed by noun.
- We also use a possessive pronoun which thing we are referring to. We have already mentioned the thing in an earlier sentence.
Activity 2
Read the conversation between two friends. Complete their conversation by putting in the correct possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns as needed.
Bindu : How about _____ garden project?
Titul : Fantastic! I took _______ suggestions.
Now I'm spending more time behind it.
Now the garden is full of different flowers.
Everyone is amazed to see _______ beauty.
How about _____ )?
Bindu: _____ is like yours.
But this time I've planted some new cactus.
I'm inspired to see Laila's garden.
The speciality of ______ is- it is full of white flowers and they are mostly local flowers.
Titul : Did you go to _________ (use Antara) garden.
Bindu : Not yet. Let us go to see them one day.
After all they are _______ friend.
Activity 3
Mita and her brother Imran are going to meet their aunt's family at Satkhira. Complete the conversation by putting correct possessive adjectives, possessive pronouns.
Mita: Imran, have you packed _______ suitcase?
Imran: No, sister. Not yet. Have you done _____?
Mita: Yes, I have done ______ yesterday ?
Imran: What things have you taken?
Mita: I have taken some of _____ (1) clothes.
Imran: Okay. ______ shirts are at the laundry. Do you need to press some of ____ (you)
Mita: No. I have already done at home. Take ______ sweater. It will be pretty cold at Satkhira.
Imran: Okay. I will take a sweater and _____ (Arman) jacket.
Mita: Why? What happened to ______ ?
Imran: The sleeves of the jacket have become dirty.
Mita: Okay. Then you can take_______(he).
Imran: What is the scheduled time of the train?
Mita: It is at 6 am. We have to start _____ _ (we) journey from home before 5am.
Activity 4
Rewrite the following sentences. Use possessives as necessary. The first one is done for you.
a) What is the name of your best friend?
What is your best friend's name?
b) What is the colour of the shirt of your colleague?
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c) What is the address of her partner?
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d) What is the last name of your sister?
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e) What is the height of his brother?
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f) What is the favourite food of your mother?
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