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[donay mendonça]

Hi Folks,

Charles called me
Mary is looking at you
Kelly likes him
The family brought her up
Teachers support it
Don needs us
Bill will tell you
Students love them

Good luck!

[maryziller]

Hi Folks,

Charles called me
Mary is looking at you
Kelly likes him
The family brought her up
Teachers support it
Don needs us
Bill will tell you
Students love them

Good examples and nice topic.
I noticed that one of the examples shows a pronoun used as the object of a preposition "at you", and the others were the objects of verbs.

This might help learners further:[url] http://www.languageguide.org/english/gr ... t1/did.jsp
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It has the Portuguese equivalents with the examples, and there is a voice recording pronouncing some of the sentences.

In addition, one can find other examples here. I like it because it categorizes all pronouns into 4 types:Subject Pronouns, Object Pronouns, Possessive Pronouns and Demonstrative Pronouns.
http://esl.about.com/cs/beginner/f/f_pronouns.htm

Does anyone want to practice? This site has a grammar exercise after the short explanation:
http://www.1-language.com/englishcourse/unit8_grammar.htm

[osnysantos]

Eu fiz alguns exercícios mais errei algumas resposta, gostaqria que me explicassem porque cometi o erro de uma forma clara. veja abaixo, os que errei estão em vermelho. As verdes estão corretas

1. Jody has lost ________ book.
1. ? mine
2. correct her
3. ? hers
4. ? theirs

2. Was ________ grammar book expensive?
1. correct your
2. ? yours
3. ? your's
4. ? you

3. You can't have any chocolate! It's ________!
1. ? your
2. ? its
3. ? her
4. correct mine

4. My telephone is out of order, but ________ is working.
1. incorrect your
2. ? our
3. correct his
4. ? their

5. ________ pencil is broken. Can I borrow ________?
1. ? Mine, yours
2. incorrect Your, mine
3. correct My, yours
4. ? Yours, mine

6. Junko has eaten her lunch already, but I'm saving ________ until later.
1. ? hers
2. ? her
3. ? my
4. correct mine

7. We gave them ________ telephone number, and they gave us ________.
1. ? ours, their
2. ? our, their
3. ? ours, theirs
4. correct our, theirs

8. These grammar books are different. ________ has 278 pages, but ________ has only 275.
1. correct Yours, mine
2. incorrect Your, my
3. ? Yours, my
4. incorrect Your, mine
9. ________ computer is a Mac, but ________ is a PC.
1. correct Your, mine
2. ? Yours, mine
3. ? Your, my
4. ? Yours, my

10. This bird has broken ________ wing.
1. ? it's
2. ? its'
3. ? hers
4. correct its

[donay mendonça]

Olá Osnysantos,

Vamos lá então:

Item 4:
Neste contexto o promome deveria ser "yours" e não "your".Temos a idéia de conclusão(o seu,o dele,o nosso) e para estes casos os pronomes adequados seriam:Mine,yours,his,hers,ours,theirs.Sugestão:Procure pelo assunto "pronomes possessivos" aqui no EE para esclarecer melhor.

Item 5:
Neste primeiro contexto temos pronomes inciando uma frase interagindo com um substantivo,então os mais adequados seriam:My,your,his,her,our,their.Para o segundo contexto ver explicação item 4

Item 8:Ver explicação do item 4


Bons estudos!

[osnysantos]

Perfeita explicação.
Eu achava que pra ser pronome possessivo ele deveria estar necessariamente no final da frase.
obrigado

[Marcio_Farias]

[...] Eu achava que pra ser pronome possessivo ele deveria estar necessariamente no final da frase.

Nem sempre. No exemplo abaixo,

These two workbooks look different. Mine has 275 pages, and yours has only 170. Como, de outra forma, já ficou explicitado nos exemplos dados.

o possessivo mine aparece no começo da segunda frase.

Neste exemplo,

Here comes Zé, an old friend of mine

o possessivo aparece no fim da frase.

Poderíamos também dizer:

"Here comes Zé, my old friend." Eu não sei porquê, mas prefiro o primeiro exemplo. Que dirão deste exemplo meu? <-- Taí, um possessivo em fim de frase em português!