Possessives with "S"

Possessives with "S"

We use apostrophe s (’s), also called possessive ’s, as a determiner to show that something belongs to someone or something:

Examples

• Is that Olivia’s bag?

• Britain’s coastline is very beautiful.

• Is that yesterday’s paper?

Principal Rules

• We use ’s after a singular noun and ’ after a plural noun. The girl’s bedroom (The bedroom belongs to one girl) The girls’ bedroom.(The bedroom belongs to more than one girl.)

• We use ’s with irregular plural nouns (e.g. children, men, people, women) The children’s parents decided which university they would go to. They have no respect for other people’s property.

  
  

• We use possessive ’s with words such as one, anyone, someone, anybody, somebody: Is this someone’s coat here?

• When we talk about places which are familiar to the speaker and the listener, we sometimes don’t use the noun after possessive ’s: the hairdresser’s salon – the hairdresser’s

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