Own It Right: Possessive and Reflexive Pronouns for Grade 5

This Grade 5 grammar worksheet helps learners strengthen their understanding of possessive and reflexive pronouns through engaging and practical exercises. Students explore how pronouns like mine, yours, ours, himself, herself, and themselves function in everyday sentences. Through varied tasks such as true or false statements, multiple choice questions, fill-in-the-blanks, sentence correction, and paragraph completion, learners develop confidence in identifying and using these pronouns correctly.

Why do Possessive & Reflexive Pronouns Matter in Grammar?

Possessive and reflexive pronouns help students write clearer and more natural sentences. For Grade 5 learners, this topic is important because:
1. Possessive pronouns show ownership without repeating nouns.
2. Reflexive pronouns show when the subject performs an action on itself.
3. They make sentences shorter, clearer, and less repetitive.
4. They are commonly used in both spoken and written English.

What’s Inside This Worksheet?

This worksheet includes five grammar-focused exercises that build mastery of possessive and reflexive pronouns.
Exercise 1 – True or False 
Students read statements about pronouns and decide whether each one is correct. This helps learners understand how possessive and reflexive pronouns function in grammar rules.

Exercise 2 – Choose the Correct Sentence 
Students select the sentence that correctly uses possessive or reflexive pronouns. This activity strengthens grammatical accuracy through comparison.

Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks 
Students complete sentences using the correct pronoun from given options. This exercise helps learners recognize when to use possessive forms versus reflexive forms.

Exercise 4 – Underline and Rewrite 
Students identify repeated nouns and replace them with appropriate pronouns, making sentences clearer and more natural.

Exercise 5 – Paragraph Completion 
Students complete a short paragraph using the correct possessive or reflexive pronouns. This contextual task helps learners apply grammar in real-life writing.

Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – True or False 
1. True 
2. True 
3. False 
4. False 
5. False 
6. True 
7. True 
8. True 
9. False 
10. False

Exercise 2 – Choose the Correct Sentence 
1. b) This bag at the bus stop is mine. 
2. a) The cricket bat is ours today. 
3. a) Mohit said that the blue scooter was his. 
4. b) The green notebook is hers now. 
5. b) Meenu looked at herself in the mirror. 
6. a) That shiny bicycle is yours. 
7. b) Aarav completed the chart by himself. 
8. a) We repaired the kite by ourselves. 
9. b) The players were trained by themselves. 
10. a) The cat cleaned itself.

Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks 
1. yours 
2. theirs 
3. himself 
4. hers 
5. myself 
6. ours 
7. mine 
8. themselves 
9. itself 
10. yourself

Exercise 4 – Rewritten Sentences 
1. I found a phone; is it yours? 
2. I found my books, but Sana cannot find hers. 
3. Our team won the trophy, so the trophy is ours. 
4. The dog looked at itself in the mirror. 
5. The kids cleaned the whole playroom by themselves. 
6. The little girl was brave and saved the cat by herself. 
7. The neighbors say the barking dog is theirs. 
8. That’s not your pencil; that is mine. 
9. I have my lunch, but Rohit forgot his. 
10. The little boy could tie his shoes by himself without help.

Exercise 5 – Paragraph Completion 
myself, hers, himself, himself, themselves, itself, ourselves, yours

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