Задайте себе следующие вопросы для проверки правильности использованных местоимений:

1. Используется ли притяжательное местоимение для определения частей тела?
Притяжательные местоимения часто используются при упоминании частей тела.
[justify]Например: She put the shawl over her shoulder.
She lifted the boy and put the shawl over his shoulder.

2. Соотносится ли местоимение со словом, к которому оно относится?
Например: The little girl put on her hat.
Если шляпа принадлежит девочке, то притяжательное местоимение должно соотноситься со словом «девочка».

3. Ясно ли в предложении, какому слову в предложении соответствует местоимение?
Например: When onion vapors reach your nose, they irritate the membranes in your nostrils, and they in turn irritate the tear ducts in your eyes.
В данном случае не понятно, к какому слову относится местоимение they: к vapors, membranes или nostrils.

4. Правильно ли выбрана форма местоимения?

Subject Pronoun	Object Pronoun	Possessive Adjective	Possessive Pronoun	Reflexive Pronoun
I You He She It We You they	Me You Him Her It Us You them	My Your His Her Its Our Your their	Mine Yours His Hers Its Ours Yours theirs	Myself Yourself Himself Herself Itself Ourselves Yourselves themselves

Например: When you see the African lions in the park, you see them in their true environment.

Оба местоимения you находятся в позиции субъекта (подлежащего). Местоимение them – это объект (дополнение), которое относится ко львам. Местоимение their имеет притяжательную форму, потому что среда, обсуждаемая в предложении, касается львов.

Упражнение 1. Если подчеркнутое местоимение не правильно, исправьте его.
Example. We prepared the supper by ourself.
Ourselves - "Our" сообщает не об одном человеке, а о нескольких. Поэтому "self" должно быть в форме множественного числа.

1. The forest rangers tranquilized the grizzly bears and attached radios to them necks.
2. While tide pools can survive natural assaults, their are defenseless against humans.
3. You and your brother need to take time to prepare yourself for the long journey.
4. The larvae metamorphose into miniature versions of their adult form.
5. These minute insects - twenty of they could fit on a pinhead - drift on wind currents.
6. Most of the families made theirselves a home of packing crates and sheet metal.
7. His is a future dictated by poverty and hardship.
8. It took their days to reach the lower regions in the winter.

Упражнение 2. Напишите слово, к которому относится подчеркнутое местоимение.
Example He put the roast on the table and began to eat it.
it _ roast __
Местоимение "it" относится к "roast."
1. Vikings buried their chief with his boat, complete with his supplies.
their ___________
his ___________
his ___________
2. Creatures cannot exist without membranes to hold them together.
them ___________
3. People thought the symbol had mystical powers, so they wore it as a good luck charm.
they ___________
it ___________
4. There are no restrictions on debates in the English House of Lords, so if its members think something is important, they will talk it through until they' are satisfied.
its ___________
they ___________
it ___________
they ___________
5. The dean expressed his support for setting up a private university provided it was supervised by the Department of Education.
his ___________
it ___________
6. This was the place where the Roman ship had sunk with its cargo of stone.
This ___________
its ___________
7. To pass his time away in jail. Charles d'Orleans smuggled out rhyming love letters to his wife, and this may have been the beginning of the custom of sending Valentine cards to loved ones.
his ___________
his ___________
this ___________
8. During a drying time of six to eight weeks, the nutmeg shrinks away from its hard seed coat until the kernels rattle in their shells when shaken.
its __________
their __________

Упражнение 3. Если подчеркнутое местоимение не соответствует нужному существительному, напишите правильное местоимение.
Example The dog bit themselves on the tail. itself
1. The importance of this archaeological site is that they reveals a whole civilization.
2. We know the risks and we are quite happy to take us.
3. The ancient Tayronas distinguished themselves as craftsmen working in gold, clay and stone.
4. The gun was beautifully engraved, making their value close to 520,000.
5. Local conservationists describe the park as one of the only places where people can park their cars and walk right to the water and see whales and dolphins.
6. When trawling for crab, he took several books so that he could study it during the Ions hours.
7. Colonel Shelly led Jim and Terry to the campsite themselves.
8. So numerous are the family's properties that the duchess cannot name it all.

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