Unit 4: Caring
Summary: Let’s Help Each Other
Key points
- We help each other at home: we wash the dishes, tidy our rooms, sweep the floor and water the plants.
- Helping and sharing make the family happy; small things count.
- Possessive adjectives tell us who something belongs to.
- A possessive adjective always comes before a noun: my bag, our house.
- “ai” and “ay” make the same sound /eɪ/: rain, day.
Rules to remember
Possessive adjectives
I ➡️ my, you ➡️ your, he ➡️ his, she ➡️ her, it ➡️ its, we ➡️ our, they ➡️ their.
His, her or its?
Look at the owner: a boy ➡️ his, a girl ➡️ her, an animal or a thing ➡️ its (no apostrophe).
How to do it
- Find the owner (who?).
- Change the owner into a subject pronoun (Rim ➡️ she).
- Choose the possessive adjective (she ➡️ her).
- Put it before the noun.
Example
Rim takes care of her cat and her brothers tidy their room.
Common mistakes
- *Sami washes her hands.* ➡️ Sami washes his hands.
- *The cat eats it’s food.* ➡️ The cat eats its food.
- *They tidy there room.* ➡️ They tidy their room.
Key words
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