The correct answer is "This is her pencil." The possessive adjectives are short forms that behave like an article in front of a noun, and the single most common error is reaching for the subject pronoun instead. Practising them in the classroom, where every object genuinely belongs to somebody, gives the forms a referent and makes the difference between her, hers and she a real distinction rather than a spelling exercise.
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Respuesta correcta: C)This is her pencil.
A)This is hers pencil.Hers is a complete pronoun used on its own, and it cannot come before a noun the way this sentence needs.
B)This is she pencil.She is the subject pronoun, which cannot modify a noun; the possessive form is her.
C)This is her pencil.The possessive her links the object to the female owner María, and a pronoun may stand in for a name in English.
D)This is María's pencils.A single pencil agrees with the singular name, so the plural pencils names more than one object.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "This is her pencil." The possessive adjectives are short forms that behave like an article in front of a noun, and the single most common error is reaching for the subject pronoun instead. Practising them in the classroom, where every object genuinely belongs to somebody, gives the forms a referent and makes the difference between her, hers and she a real distinction rather than a spelling exercise.
Pregunta 2
Pregunta 2 · D3Bloom: Remember
Completing a question about family members with a possessive.
Complete the question: "Whose bag is this?" "It is ________ bag. My name is Andrés."
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Respuesta correcta: A)my
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "my". Possessive questions are a two-way exchange in English: the person answering names their own possession with my, which means the student has to track who is speaking rather than just supply a plausible word. The four distractors cover the other three persons, so the item tests reference rather than vocabulary size.
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Respuesta correcta: A)my
A)myMy names the speaker's own bag, and Andrés is the one holding the bag and answering the question.
B)hisHis names a male owner, but the speaker has just said the bag belongs to Andrés, who is the person answering.
C)yourYour names the listener's possession, but the bag belongs to the person answering, not to the one asking.
D)herHer names a female owner, and the speaker who owns this bag has given a male name.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "my". Possessive questions are a two-way exchange in English: the person answering names their own possession with my, which means the student has to track who is speaking rather than just supply a plausible word. The four distractors cover the other three persons, so the item tests reference rather than vocabulary size.
Pregunta 3
Pregunta 3 · D4Bloom: Understand
Reading labels on objects left in a classroom.
Read the labels: "Sofía's jacket, Diego's ruler, Laura's pencil case". Whose ruler is on the desk?
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Respuesta correcta: D)Diego's
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Diego's". A possessive name plus apostrophe-s is the first form Colombian students meet and it is easy to confuse with a plain plural when reading quickly. Binding each name to the object that follows it in a labelled list is the same operation students perform on a school timetable or a lost-property list, so the item carries a real classroom purpose.
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Respuesta correcta: D)Diego's
A)Sofía'sThe jacket in the list belongs to Sofía, not the ruler, so the owner has been mixed up.
B)Nobody'sEvery object in the list carries a name, so there is no object here left without an owner.
C)Laura'sThe pencil case in the list belongs to Laura, which is a different object from the ruler.
D)Diego'sThe label pairs the ruler with Diego, and the possessive name before the apostrophe-s names the owner.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Diego's". A possessive name plus apostrophe-s is the first form Colombian students meet and it is easy to confuse with a plain plural when reading quickly. Binding each name to the object that follows it in a labelled list is the same operation students perform on a school timetable or a lost-property list, so the item carries a real classroom purpose.
Pregunta 4
Pregunta 4 · D4Bloom: Apply
Choosing the possessive that fits a sentence about a school group.
Complete the sentence: "Diana and her brother live together. ________ room is small."
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Respuesta correcta: B)Their
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Their". Their is the form students miss most often because it is the only English possessive with no apostrophe and no letter s, which makes it look unlike the others. Putting it in a sentence about two people isolates that irregularity, and the two look-alike distractors catch exactly the confusion the form invites.
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Respuesta correcta: B)Their
A)They'reThey're is the contraction of they are, and it cannot modify the noun room in this sentence.
B)TheirTheir refers to more than one owner, and the room belongs to Diana together with her brother.
C)ThereThere is a word for a place that exists, and it does not express possession of the room.
D)OursOurs names the speaker and one or more others as owners of a single item, but the room here belongs to Diana and her brother without the speaker.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Their". Their is the form students miss most often because it is the only English possessive with no apostrophe and no letter s, which makes it look unlike the others. Putting it in a sentence about two people isolates that irregularity, and the two look-alike distractors catch exactly the confusion the form invites.
Pregunta 5
Pregunta 5 · D4Bloom: Apply
Rewriting a sentence to use a possessive adjective instead of a prepositional phrase.
Which sentence says the same as "The keys that belong to my mother are on the table"?
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Respuesta correcta: D)My mother's keys are on the table.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "My mother's keys are on the table." English allows a noun plus apostrophe-s to do the work of a long phrase, and knowing when to use it is what makes a student's writing sound like English rather than translated Spanish. Comparing the two versions side by side shows the student that the shorter form is not a different meaning but a more direct way of saying the same thing.
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Respuesta correcta: D)My mother's keys are on the table.
A)Mother's my keys are on the table.The word order is inverted, so the possessive ends up in front of the owner instead of before the noun it modifies.
B)The keys of my mother are on the table.The phrase of my mother identifies the owner in Spanish style, but English prefers the possessive form with the name.
C)My mother keys are on the table.The apostrophe-s that marks possession is missing, so the sentence does not attach the owner to the keys.
D)My mother's keys are on the table.A possessive name plus apostrophe-s attaches the owner to the noun and makes a shorter, more natural sentence.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "My mother's keys are on the table." English allows a noun plus apostrophe-s to do the work of a long phrase, and knowing when to use it is what makes a student's writing sound like English rather than translated Spanish. Comparing the two versions side by side shows the student that the shorter form is not a different meaning but a more direct way of saying the same thing.
Pregunta 6
Pregunta 6 · D4Bloom: Apply
Responding to a teacher who has found a student's notebook.
A teacher says: "Is this your notebook?" You want to say yes politely. Which reply is right?
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Respuesta correcta: B)Yes, it's my notebook.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Yes, it's my notebook." A real exchange with a teacher puts the possessive under time pressure, which is where students who know the form but not the contract fall down. It also marks the boundary the students hit next week when descriptions of people begin: the difference between an adjective that needs a noun and a pronoun that does not.
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Respuesta correcta: B)Yes, it's my notebook.
A)Yes, it's me notebook.The possessive of me is my, so this version uses the wrong form for the speaker's own possession.
B)Yes, it's my notebook.My signals that the notebook belongs to the speaker, which is exactly what the question is checking.
C)Yes, it's myer's notebook.The apostrophe belongs after the s in a name ending in s, and the whole string here is not a word.
D)Yes, it's mine's notebook.Mine already stands alone as a complete pronoun, and adding an s to it produces a form that does not exist.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Yes, it's my notebook." A real exchange with a teacher puts the possessive under time pressure, which is where students who know the form but not the contract fall down. It also marks the boundary the students hit next week when descriptions of people begin: the difference between an adjective that needs a noun and a pronoun that does not.
Pregunta 7
Pregunta 7 · D4Bloom: Apply
Choosing between two possessives that both appear in one short text.
Read: "Carlos forgot his book, so Julián lent him his notebook." Whose notebook is it?
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Respuesta correcta: A)Julián's
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Julián's". A text that repeats the same pronoun for two different people is a classic comprehension trap, and it is also the fastest way to see whether a student has understood that a possessive points at a referent rather than at a class of people. This is the reading behind the possessive form, and it is what the family and description weeks of this period depend on.
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Respuesta correcta: A)Julián's
A)Julián'sThe lender is Julián, so the notebook being lent is Julián's, and his in both places points to different people.
B)Carlos'sCarlos is the one who forgot his book, so the book is his and the notebook is not his.
C)Nobody'sJulián owns the notebook and is simply lending it, so ownership does not change when an object is lent.
D)Both of theirsThe sentence names two different possessors with two separate his pronouns, and there is no joint ownership to describe.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Julián's". A text that repeats the same pronoun for two different people is a classic comprehension trap, and it is also the fastest way to see whether a student has understood that a possessive points at a referent rather than at a class of people. This is the reading behind the possessive form, and it is what the family and description weeks of this period depend on.
Pregunta 8
Pregunta 8 · D4Bloom: Analyze
Checking which facts about a family are stated in a short text.
Read: "My uncle lives in Cali. His daughter is my cousin." What does the text tell us?
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Respuesta correcta: C)The cousin is the daughter of the uncle.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "The cousin is the daughter of the uncle." Reading for what a text states and what it merely leaves out is the difference between comprehension and guessing, and a pronoun such as his forces the student to resolve the reference before the sentence means anything. Every distractor here is a plausible fact that the text never licenses, which is the most common failure mode in reading items at this level.
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Respuesta correcta: C)The cousin is the daughter of the uncle.
A)The cousin lives in Cali.The text says the uncle lives in Cali, and it never says where the cousin lives.
B)The uncle is the father of the speaker.The text calls him an uncle, which is the sibling of a parent, and it does not make him a father.
C)The cousin is the daughter of the uncle.His daughter points back to the uncle and is named the speaker's cousin, so she is his child.
D)The speaker lives in Cali.The text places the uncle in Cali and says nothing at all about where the speaker lives.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "The cousin is the daughter of the uncle." Reading for what a text states and what it merely leaves out is the difference between comprehension and guessing, and a pronoun such as his forces the student to resolve the reference before the sentence means anything. Every distractor here is a plausible fact that the text never licenses, which is the most common failure mode in reading items at this level.
Pregunta 9
Pregunta 9 · D4Bloom: Analyze
Finding the possessive that a sentence has used incorrectly.
A student writes: "The dog is my's." What is the problem?
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Respuesta correcta: B)My does not take an s at the end.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "My does not take an s at the end." Students extend the apostrophe-s rule of names to the short forms, which produces forms that do not exist in English. Isolating that one overgeneralisation in a very short sentence shows the student exactly where the pattern stops, and it is the same distinction that keeps their written work free of invented possessives.
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Respuesta correcta: B)My does not take an s at the end.
A)The word my cannot show possession.My is a fully correct possessive adjective, so the problem lies in the extra letter added to it.
B)My does not take an s at the end.The apostrophe-s belongs to a name such as María's, but a possessive adjective like my is already complete and takes nothing.
C)Mine is the only correct possessive form.Mine is one of four possesive pronouns, and my is a correct adjective form, so this is not the problem.
D)The dog cannot belong to a person.Pets are routinely described as belonging to their owners, so the possession itself is perfectly ordinary.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "My does not take an s at the end." Students extend the apostrophe-s rule of names to the short forms, which produces forms that do not exist in English. Isolating that one overgeneralisation in a very short sentence shows the student exactly where the pattern stops, and it is the same distinction that keeps their written work free of invented possessives.
Pregunta 10
Pregunta 10 · D4Bloom: Evaluate
Choosing the clearest way to introduce a friend to a teacher.
You want to introduce your friend Juliana to your teacher. Which sentence does this best?
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Respuesta correcta: D)This is my friend, Juliana.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "This is my friend, Juliana." Introducing someone is a set phrase that Grade 6 students will use many times, and the possessive does the work of naming who the friend belongs to. Choosing the version that a teacher would find natural rather than merely a grammatical string is the evaluative step the exam rewards, and the three distractors each break the sentence in one specific way.
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Respuesta correcta: D)This is my friend, Juliana.
A)This is my friend, she.She names a female person but is a pronoun, and a pronoun cannot stand where the full name belongs here.
B)This is my friend of Juliana.The phrase of Juliana would work for an object in Spanish, but English marks the name with a comma or a form like Juliana's.
C)This is me friend, Juliana.The possessive of me is my, so this version names the speaker's own friend as though it were the speaker who was introduced.
D)This is my friend, Juliana.My attaches the introduction to the speaker and the name after the comma makes the friend identifiable.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "This is my friend, Juliana." Introducing someone is a set phrase that Grade 6 students will use many times, and the possessive does the work of naming who the friend belongs to. Choosing the version that a teacher would find natural rather than merely a grammatical string is the evaluative step the exam rewards, and the three distractors each break the sentence in one specific way.
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