Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Possessive Forms
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
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Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Bracken Business Communications: Plurals & Possessives[pdf]
This is the PDF article "Bracken Business Communications: Plurals and Possessives" expaining the rules and exceptions for forming plural and possessive nouns and providing examples of each.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Possessives and Irregular Plurals
This quiz asks students to type in the correct spelling of the plural or possessive as directed and to capitalize any proper nouns. Links are provided to a quiz list, tutorials for plurals and possessives, and the "Guide to Grammar and...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise Plurals & Possessives
This site offers exercises in the sometimes confusing use of plurals of possessives. In each space write "C" if correct, or "I" if incorrect. Then click on "Submit Application" for the answers.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Making Proper Names Plural but Not Possessive
This tutorial explains how to make your last name plural when sending greetings from your entire family (or anytime you are talking about your entire family.) This is a very common grammatical problem, and it is explained clearly here....
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Advanced (Plural) Possession
Possessive plurals have a complicated relationship with apostrophes, but this exercise is here to help you understand it!
Other
Grammar quizzes.com: Possessive Nouns: Indicating Possession
A series of carts containing rules and examples of possessives including singular and plural common nouns, proper nouns, inanimate nouns, days and holidays, and numbers and letters. A fourteen-question practice exercise follows the...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: William Strunk on the Possessive Singular
William Strunk Jr.'s "Elements of Style" on the creation of possessive singular nouns. Provided by Bartleby.com
Other
Possessives
This article contains rules about the correct way to incorporate possessives into college writing. A link with downloadable practice exercises is included at the end of the lesson.
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer's Apostrophes Showing Possession
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession and examples are provided. Note that links are provided at the bottom of the page for other specific uses of the apostrophe.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to the Possessive
Learn to use apostrophes to indicate possession, or ownership -- and when not to use them.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Possessives
This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the standard use of apostrophes when using both singular and plural. It also provides a practice exercise.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Match It: Sentence Game: Plurals and Possessives
Fill in the blanks in seven sentences by matching the plural or possessive noun that completes each sentence.
Other
K12 Reader: Possessive Nouns
Take a look at examples of possessive nouns, both singular and plural.
English Plus+
Plural Possessives
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession with plural nouns.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Plural Possessives
This site focuses on teaching plural possessive nouns and pronouns including what they are and methods of teaching them including using flashcards, and plural possessive Bingo, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Possessive Perfection
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains the rules for singular, plural and irregular possessives. Students are given an opportunity to identify and create correct possessive forms.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Plural Forms
A good explanation of Plural Forms for the student. Site also offers a quiz at the end. L.11-12.2b Spelling
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession
Six slides introducing apostrophes and how they can be used properly with singular and plural nouns to show possession.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals and Possessives
Write a sentence containing each of the twenty-four plural and possessive words listed. When finished, create a PDF of the sentences to print and share.
Quia
Quia: Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns
Flashcards is an interactive version of flashcards; one side of the card has a noun and the other has the possessive form of the noun. Students just click on the card to see the other side.
Quia
Quia: Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns
This matching game has students match the singular and plural possessive nouns to their plural forms while remembering the location of each pair. Java is required.
Quia
Quia: Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns
This matching game asks students to match singular and possessive nouns with their plural forms. Java is required.