Plurals and possessives

Plurals and possessives

The Differences.

​Plurals, Singular possessive nouns, Plural Possessive nouns.

Plural Nouns are Just Nouns that are many in numbers.

Singular possessive nouns are nouns that are connected to another subject.

Plural Possessive Nouns are Plural nouns that are connected to another subject

​For example:

Kids' Meal VS Kids Meal VS Kid's Meal VS Kids' Meals

Special cases

​Its and Their

Its = possessive of it. Turn the phone on its side

Their = possessive of they. That phone is their phone./ That phone is theirs.

it's = it is/ it has

They're = they are There = location

Example

British scientists James Watson and Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in part for their 1953 paper announcing the double helix structure of DNA, but it is misleading to say that Watson and Crick discovered the double helix. _______ findings were based on a famous X-ray image of DNA fibers, “Photo 51,” developed by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and her graduate student Raymond Gosling.

A) They’re B) It’s C) Their D) Its

Multiple Choice

Slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo's debut novel The Poet X, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, is composed of ______ protagonist, fifteen-year-old Xiomara Batista.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• poem's putatively written by the novel's

• poem's putatively written by the novels'

• poems putatively written by the novels'

• poems putatively written by the novel's

Multiple Choice

Literary agents estimate that more than half of all nonfiction books credited to a celebrity or other public figure are in fact written by ghostwriters, professional authors who are paid to write other _______ but whose names never appear on book covers.

• people’s stories

• peoples story’s

• peoples stories

• people’s story’s

Multiple Choice

Photographer Ansel Adams's landscape portraits are iconic pieces of American art. However, many of the ______ of landscapes were intended not as art but as marketing; a concessions company at Yosemite National Park had hired Adams to take pictures of the park for restaurant menus and brochures.Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• photographers early photo's

• photographers early photos

• photographer's early photos

• photographer's early photo's

Multiple Choice

Labor unions are formed in order to protect ______ through collective bargaining, which gives employees greater leverage while ensuring they are treated equally by management.

• workers' rights

• worker's rights

• workers rights'workers rights'

• workers' rights'

Multiple Choice

The striated ______ walls are the result of erosion and frost weathering having exposed layers of multicolored sedimentary rock.

• patterns' of a canyons

• patterns' of a canyons

• pattern's of a canyon's

• patterns of a canyon's

Most Important....

Understand the sentence.....