FORM
- Add 's after the possessor:
- Mandy's car
- The women's room
- The queen's jewels
- Add 's after the plural and after endings in 's':
- My friends' house
- Her granparents' car
- Lewis' job
- Frances' boat
- Add 's after the possessor's name, or use a possessive pronoun:
- A friend of my mother's (=one of my mother's friends)
- A friend of your teachers' (=one of your teachers' friends)
- Some expression take the possessive form (without the noun):
- We went to Peter's
- At the Simpson's
- At the doctor's
- Macy's
USE
- It tends to be used if possessors are people, animals or institutions:
- the cat's tail
- Mary's supermarket
- the government's proposal
- But remember:
- the leg of the table
- the end of the process
- the boot of the car
VIDEO
EXERCISE
EXERCISE
Now try to describe who's who in the British Royal family:
taken from http://www.henry4school.fr/UK/monarchy/pdf/The%20British%20Royal%20Family%20Tree.pdf |
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