Exercise 53, p. 397

1. Don’t tell me your problems. I’ve got enough problems of

my own.

2. Who is that man? Is he a friend of yours?

3. Come and sit beside me.

4. It belongs to an old friend of my father’s.

5. She prefers to live by herself.

6. She prefers to live on her own.

7. A friend of my father’s is a painter. He painted this portrait

of mine when I was only sixteen.

8. Is that car yours or is it your wife’s?

9. He has his own business.

10. What I would really like is a car of my own.

11. If a letter starts “Dear Sir”, it should finish with the words

“Yours faithfully”.

12. Louisa’s work is much tidier than mine or Anna’s.