Possessive Nouns

Possessive Nouns

This is an apostrophe: '

We can use 's at the end of a noun to show ownership.

Usamos 's al final de un sustantivo para mostrar propiedad.

For example: The food of the dog looks delicious.

The dog's food looks delicious.

Let's Practice!

What does this sentence mean?

Miss Aune's students are so loud!

Multiple Choice

Ms. Aune's students are so loud.

• The students of Ms. Aune are so loud.

• The Ms. Aune of the students is so loud.

Multiple Choice

My phone's battery is dead.

• The battery of my phone is dead.

• The phone of my battery is dead.

The marker of the teacher is missing.

___ _________ ______ is missing.

Multiple Choice

The marker of the teacher is missing.

___ _________ ______ is missing.

• The teacher's marker

• The marker's teacher

• The teachers marker

The teacher has many ________.

marker's or markers?

Multiple Choice

The teacher has many ________.

• marker's

• markers

The mop of my dad is dirty.

__ _____ ___ is dirty.

If the noun already ends in an s, then we only add the ' to show ownership.

For example: The puppies' food looks gross.

(the food of the puppies)

The food of the puppies looks gross.

___ ________ _____ looks gross.

the papers of Robert

the birthday of Omar

the ball of the elephant

Multiple Choice

stripes on those zebras

• those zebras's stripes

• those zebras stripes'

• those zebras' stripes

• those zebras stripes

Multiple Choice

wings of the bird

• the bird wings

• the birds wings

• the bird's wings

• the birds' wings

El amigo de Omar tiene una pregunta.

*Translate the sentence on the following slide.

La computadora de mi amiga tiene un virus.

Natalia es la amiga de Sasha.