Transcript Bread and Butter Skills

Bread and Butter
Skills - Punctuation
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Apostrophes to show
possession
Apostrophes to show
possession
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Possession
Apostrophes are also used to show possession: who or what
owns something, e.g.
This is Max’s book means This book belongs to Max.
Adding an apostrophe and an s after a
person, place or thing shows that he/she/it are
the owner of the other noun in the sentence.
Here are some more examples:
1. Megan’s pet tarantula is called Mogg.
2. Mogg’s owner is called Megan.
3. All of the bus’s seats are full.
Now write down five of your own sentences
using apostrophes to show possession.
Possession
To show possession we normally add an apostrophe and an s
after the word.
We don’t add the extra s, however, if the word is a plural
noun because it already ends in an s, and it would become
too difficult to pronounce, e.g.
1. The toilets’ hand-driers are broken.
2. You only have two weeks’ holiday.
3. Those plants’ leaves are brown.
Try to write five sentences using apostrophes
to show possession for plural nouns.
Bread and Butter
Skills - Punctuation
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