Grammar Unit 1: Lesson 3

1. Grammar Unit 1: Lesson 3 Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions! Oh, MY!

2. DEFINITION A POSSESSIVE NOUNis a noun that shows ownership or possession of things or qualities. Ling’s birthday cake

3. How to form possessive nouns:

4. Examples

5. Guided Practice Write the possessive form of the noun in parentheses. bird’s Janel’s Oscar’s students’ Mr. Nevins’s bus’s

6. DEFINITION A CONTRACTION is a word made by combining two words and leaving out one or more letters. An apostrophe shows where the letters have been left out.

7. Contractions The speaker is happy about her presentation. We can join the two words speaker and is to create a contraction. SPEAKER’ S The speaker’s happy about her presentation.

8. Complete the following chart woman’s women women’s woman’s echo echo’s echoes echoes’ country country’s country’s countries’ speaker speaker’s speakers’ speaker’s

9. Guided Practice Identify the bolded word in each sentence by writing plural noun, singular, singular possessive noun, plural possessive noun, or contraction. Plural noun Singular Poss. Singular Poss. contraction Plural Poss. Plural poss.

10. Testing Your Knowledge 1. What is a possessive noun? AN: A noun that shows ownership 2. How do you form singular possessive nouns? AN: By adding an apostrophe s (‘s) 3. How do you form plural possessive nouns? AN: By adding an apostrophe after the s.

11. 4. How do you form the possessive form of plural nouns that DO NOT end in s? AN: By adding an apostrophe and s (‘s). 5. What is a contraction? AN: a word made by combining two words and leaving out one or more letters using an apostrophe.