2nd grade possessive pronouns worksheets
Possessive pronouns show ownership without repeating a name: her bicycle, their garden, that seat is ours. Second graders master both positions, before the noun (my, your, their) and standing alone (mine, yours, theirs), and meet its without an apostrophe.
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The kind of sentences you'll get
Circle the letter of the owning word that fits the sentence.
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The messy desk is .
her · hers
Answer: hers
- Is this jacket? your · yours
- voice sounds like a song. Your · Yours
Every print pulls a fresh set of sentences at this level, so a make-up test or a second sibling never gets the same sheet.
What's on each sheet
- Choose the word. Circle the letter of the owning word that fits the sentence. 8 questions per page.
Every version prints on US Letter or A4, with its answer key on the last page.
How to teach this
Name the two jobs directly: some owning words work before the thing (my bike), others stand alone at the end (the bike is mine). Sorting the pairs into a two-column chart makes the system visible. Introduce its carefully and early, always alongside the reminder that the owning version has no apostrophe.
Watch for: The pairs split by position: my, your, her, our, and their sit before a noun; mine, yours, hers, ours, and theirs stand alone. Possessive pronouns never take an apostrophe. It's always means it is (or it has).
Common questions about possessive pronouns
- Is "its" really a possessive pronoun?
- Yes, and it's the only one people misspell constantly. Its shows owning (the dog wagged its tail) and never takes an apostrophe, because possessive pronouns as a family never do: hers, ours, theirs, its. The apostrophe version, it's, always means it is (or it has).
- How do I explain their versus theirs?
- Same position rule as my/mine. Their sits before the thing: their treehouse. Theirs stands alone: the treehouse is theirs. Once students see the whole family follows one pattern, the pairs stop feeling like separate facts to memorize.
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Aligned to Common Core L.1.1.d. Reviewed by the One more sheet team. Content version 137, updated August 2026.
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