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Possessive Nouns

Learn how to show ownership and relationships with singular and plural possessive nouns. Understand when to use apostrophes correctly in both singular and plural forms. Review examples and practice sentences to gauge your understanding.

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Possessive Nouns

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  1. Possessive Nouns Time to Review

  2. Possessive Nouns • Show ownership or relationship • Use apostrophes • Example: • Jon’s bike • Jon’s mom

  3. Singular possessive • One noun (person, place, or thing) • Having ownership or relationship

  4. The apostrophe in plural possessives • Plurals ending in “s” • Just add an apostrophe • Example: spiders becomes spiders’ • All the spiders’ webs were beautiful. • Plurals not ending in “s” • Add an apostrophe and the letter “s” • Example: children becomes children’s • Please get all the children’s caps before we go outside.

  5. Singular Possessive or Plural Possessive? • boy’s • mice’s • poster’s • wall’s • flowers’ • moose’s

  6. Is the possessive used correctly in the sentence? • The leaves’ are falling off the tree. • The leaves’ stems are falling off the tree. • The sky’s clouds are very big and dark! • All of the apples were eaten by the horse’s. • I wonder if the school’s flag was raised today? • One of the monkeys’ cages is open! • Today all the children’s hats look funny! • I hope all the picture’s look nice.

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