Here is a story. make it sound better by putting pronouns instead of nouns where you think necessary.

About Sir Isaac Newton

One of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived was Sir Isaac Newton. No man of that time or of almost any other time had a greater or wiser mind than Newton had, but Newton was very absent-minded about small matters when Newton was thinking about his work. One morning Newton got up very early because Newton was working on a very difficult problem. Newton was thinking about the problem so deeply that Newton would not leave the problem to go to breakfast. But his housekeeper thought Newton needed food so the housekeeper sent Mary, a servant, to his study with a pan of water and an egg. The housekeeper told the servant to boil the egg and stay with Newton until Newton ate the egg. But Newton wanted to be alone, and Newton said, "Mary can leave the egg with Newton, and Newton will boil the egg." The servant put the egg on the table by the side of Newton's watch and the servant said, "Sir Isaac Newton must boil the egg for four minutes and then the eggwill be ready," then the servant left the room. The servant was afraid, however, that New­ton might forget to boil the egg, so Mary returned about an hour later and found Newton standing by the fireplace. Newton had put the watch in the saucepan and was boiling the watch. Newton was holding the egg in his hand, quite unaware of the mistake that Newton was making.

Fill in the gaps with suitable possessive pronouns.

1. I’m a student. ___ name’s Ivanov.

2. Ted is a schoolboy. ___ marks are good.

3. Ann and Jane are engineers. ____ children are at school.

4. Please give me _____ exercise-book, Peter.

5. We are engineers, _____ friends are engineers, too.

6. “What are ____ names?” “____ name’s Nick and ____ name’s Alice.

7. Let me introduce ____ sisters. ____ names are Ann and Mary.

8. Moscow is a big city. ____ streets are noisy and overcrowded.

Write down the sentences choosing the suitable pronouns from the ones given in the brackets.

1. (I, me, my) parents are old people. (They, them, their) are retired. (They, them, their) have a house in the country. (They, them, their) house is small. (I, me, my) usually go to see (they, them, their) on Sunday. 2. (I, me, my) brother and (he, him, his) family live in Kiev. Sometimes (I, me, my) go to Kiev and see (they, them, their). 3. (We, us, our) students study a lot. (They, them, their) have four lessons every week. (They, them, their) lessons begin at 8 o'clock in the morning. At the lessons (they, them, their) teacher asks (they, them, their) a lot of questions and the students answer (they, them, their). 4. (I, me, my) elder sister has a new flat now. (She, her) flat is very good. (She, her) likes (it, its) very much.

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