APOSTROPHES FOR POSSESSION

Select the TWO uses of an apostrophe from the list below:

• creating a contraction

• matching a pronoun with its subject

• showing possession

• freaking out all of its punctuation mark friends by levitating

Select all that apply:

Use quotation marks _______________________.

• to enclose a direct quotation--a person's exact words.

• to enclose titles of short stories, poems, essays, articles, songs, episodes of a television series, and chapters or parts of a book.

• to show where letters, words. or numbers have been omitted.

• to form the possessive case of nouns and indefinite pronouns.

Revise the sentence below by adding the possessive apostrophe + s to the correct location.

*(Fix the sentence by rewriting it correctly. = revise)

The teacher computer is brand new.

What are the two reasons for apostrophes?

• To show omission and plurals.

• To show possession and plurals.

• To show possession and to show omission.

Pick the sentence with the possessive apostrophe in the correct place.

• My brother-in-law name's is Nestor.

• My brother's-in-law name is Nestor.

• My brother-in-law's name is Nestor.

The sentence below in red is incorrect. It is missing a singular possessive apostrophe. The subject noun, teacher, does NOT need to be made plural.

Where should the possessive apostrophe go in the sentence below?

The teachers computer is brand new.

• The teacher' computer is brand new.

• The teacher's computer is brand new.

• The teachers' computer is brand new.

Which choice best represents the following phrase:

the bags of those students

• those student's bags

• those student's bag's

• those students' bags'

• those students' bags

Do not put apostrophes in possessive personal pronouns. These pronouns show possession without an apostrophe. Examples: hers, his, yours, its, ours, theirs

Which of the following has an incorrect possessive form?

• It is hers.

• church's steeple

• it's shiny surface

• Mom's car

Kevin, Joe, and Nick are in a band.

They all sing but do not have the same voice.

They all have different wives.

Which one is correct?

• Kevin, Joe, and Nick's voices are all talented in their own ways.

• Kevin's, Joe's, and Nick's band gained world-wide fame in the mid-2000s.

• Kevin's, Joe's, and Nick's wives are all suckers for them.

Pick the sentence with the possessive apostrophe in the correct place.

• David and Samuels grandmother's name is Maria.

• David and Samuel's grandmother's name is Maria.

• David and Samuel's grandmothers name is Maria.