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Showing posts with label Possessive Nouns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Possessive Nouns. Show all posts

Monday, November 15, 2010

Possessive a) Nouns b) Noun's c) Nouns'

Tomorrow we will have a quiz on possessive nouns. Remember our rules!

If it is singular possessive, there is an apostrophe s at the end (even if it ends in S like Chris's pencil!)
If it is plural possessive, there is just an apostrophe (if it ends in S) and an apostrophe s if the noun does not end in s (like the mice's shoelaces)

Many people (adults included) make mistakes when they use apostrophes.  Many of these mistakes are related to possessive and plural nouns.  There is even a whole website dedicated to finding the mistakes and sharing them with the world!  Check out Apostrophe Abuse.  Here are some pictures that I found on that site.  Can you find the errors?




Here is a link to the game we played in class today.  Comment to this post with a sentence using a possessive noun!