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Vocabulary: belonging and possessing

When we are to express possession in English, we immediately think about the

"genitive", also called "possessive case". test

We won't deal with it in this lesson.

Here, we'll concentrate on the vocabulary which must be used to express possession.

Trying to find a little more, we must acknowledge that there are many such expressions.

We should, of course, remember

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES and PRONOUNS (or determiners):

(possessive adjectives are placed before a noun; possessive pronouns replace a noun.)

It's MY property: it's MINE.

My	Mine
Your	Yours
His	His
Her	Hers
Its	its (own)
Our	Ours
Their	Theirs
	It's mine/ theirs

and also VERBS AT THE SERVICE OF POSSESSION, AND BELONGING:

To have

To own/ to possess sth

To be in possession of sth

In my/ his possession

The owner/ ownership

To be possessive about sth

To belong to somebody

It belongs to me/ It's my property

His belongings/ his things

His stuff/ his gear (singular)

Have you got any?/ Do you have any?

Have you got one?/ Do you have one?

To obtain something from somebody/ To get something from somebody

To take something from somebody

To take something away from somebody

To gain something

To acquire something

To find something/ come across something/ to come by something

To keep something/ hang on to something/To hold on to something

To retain something

a store

To have something in store

Will the baby birds be fed? Always difficult to SHARE...

To give somebody something/ to give something to somebody

To hand something over to somebody

To provide somebody with something/ To provide something for somebody

To share something out among

To share something with somebody

one's share of something

To surrender To throw away

To hand something out/ distribute something

To throw something away/ throw something out

To dispose of something/ to get rid of

To rid somebody/ something of something /somebody

Good riddance!

To abandon something to somebody/ To surrender something to somebody

To give something up

I do hope these can help you.

First, the test will show you that you are ready to use these expressions, and then, little

by little, they'll come naturally to your minds; Go for it with THE FORCE!

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