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.
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.
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.
Other
Adele's Esl Corner: Possessive Pronouns
Replace the possessive nouns in each sentence with the appropriate possessive pronoun.
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.
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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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: Basic Noun Pronoun Agreement
Notes on pronoun-noun agreement with links to additional information and practice exercises.
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.
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.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Pronoun Reference
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to recognize pronoun reference in the context of a sentence.