A. Read the text and notice the words in italics:
Uncle Masud drives our school bus. I reach my school in time. Sushil, my friend, also goes with me. He is a brilliant student of our class. Today Sushil's pencil box has been lost. So he has not completed his homework. As Shushil is a friend of mine, I have lent him my pencil. Our class teacher is very serious about our homework.
These are possessives. They answer the following questions:
Whose school bus is that?
Whose school is that?
Whose class is that?
Whose pencil box is lost?
Whose homework was not done?
Whose friend is Shushil?
They show ownership and relationship.
B. Find out the possessives:
Whose child is this?
"Whose child is this?" I asked one day Seeing a little one out at play.
"Mine", said the parent with a tender smile.
"Mine to keep a little while
To bathe his hands and comb his hair,
To tell him what he is to wear,
To prepare him that he may always be good
And each day do the things he should."
"Whose child is this?" I asked again,
"Mine," to keep just for a little while,
To teach him how to be gentle and kind,
To train and direct his dear little mind,
To help him live by every rule
And get the best he can from school."
"Whose child is this?" I asked once more,
Just as the little one entered the door.
"Ours", said the parent and the teacher as they smiled,
And each took the hand of the little child.
"Ours to love and train together
Ours this blessed task forever."
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