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.
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: Introduction to the Possessive
Learn to use apostrophes to indicate possession, or ownership -- and when not to use them.
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.
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.
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Cases of Nouns and Pronouns
In this writing and grammar tutorial, learn how to distinguish and use nouns and pronouns in English and whether they are subjective, nominative, possessive, or objective.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Self Teaching Units: Apostrophes
This module explains how to use apostrophes to form possessive nouns and pronouns, provides links to exercises for each new idea, and a link to a post lesson quiz.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Noun and Pronoun Grammar Blast
Discover more about nouns and pronouns when you visit this "Grammar Blast," activity. Students have an opportunity to play a game while improving their grammar skills.
Other
Adele's Esl Corner: Possessive Pronouns
Replace the possessive nouns in each sentence with the appropriate possessive pronoun.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Possessive Pronoun and Apostrophe
This Purdue Online Writing Lab article explains the three uses of the apostrophe.
Quia
Quia: Grammar Review Challenge
Play a Jeopardy-like game alone or with a friend by answering questions in five categories including Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Subjects and Predicates, and Possessive Nouns and Pronouns.
Quia
Quia: Grammar Review Challenge
Play a Jeopardy-like game alone or with a friend by answering questions in five categories including Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Subjects and Predicates, and Possessive Nouns and Pronouns.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Pronouns and Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
This tutorial-quiz for pronoun usage features many examples of where pronouns fit in a sentence to achieve proper antecedent agreement.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Apostrophe Rules
This page focuses on the rules for the uses and misuses of the apostrophe including contractions and omissions, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, how to write joint possession, plurals, apostrophes with surrounding punctuation, and...
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Apostrophes
This resource looks at the three main uses of apostrophes: to take the place of deleted letters; to show possession; and to show plurals of letters, numbers, symbols, abbreviations and words used as words.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Determiners
This entry focuses on the types of determiners including articles, possessive nouns, numbers, indefinite pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns and provides examples of each.
University College London
Internet Grammar of English: Pronouns
Grammar tutorial on the correct use pronouns. Includes a follow-up exercise on the identification of pronoun types.
University College London
University College London: Types of Pronouns
This site from the Internet Grammar of English from the University College of London provides a table with examples of several types of pronouns. For each type, example pronouns and a usage example are given. Includes practice problems.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Basic Noun Pronoun Agreement
Notes on pronoun-noun agreement with links to additional information and practice exercises.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Catastrophes of Apostrophic Proportions
An interactive exercise where students practice apostrophe use with plural nouns, singular and plural possessives, possessive pronouns, and irregular plural nouns. In each of the six sentences, students choose the correct apostrophe...
University College London
University College London: Types of Pronouns
Identify the pronoun type in nine sentences. Browser must be Java enabled. Netscape recommended. Site by University College London.
Other
Bellevue Community College: Apostrophes [Pdf]
Resource explains the three uses of the apostrophe and provides examples. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Pronoun Reference
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to recognize pronoun reference in the context of a sentence.