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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Possessive nouns

how do you write the possessive forms of nouns??? here is some of the words women, dollars, bus, family, deer, foxes, feet, rose, cattle, man
  

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women's club dollars' color family's dog deer's feet foxes' tails rose's thorns cattle's food man's children To make a possessive from a singular noun, you usually add an apostrophe then an "s". (boy's, cow's, chair's) To make a possessive from plural nouns that end in "s", add an apostrophe. (girls', dogs', doctors') With irregular plural nouns, add an apostrophe "s" (women's)

— Ku1980rose

  • women's club dollars' color family's dog deer's feet foxes' tails rose's thorns cattle's food man's children To make a possessive from a singular noun, you usually add an apostrophe then an "s".
  • (boy's, cow's, chair's) To make a possessive from plural nouns that end in "s", add an apostrophe.
  • (girls', dogs', doctors') With irregular plural nouns, add an apostrophe "s" (women's)
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women's club

dollars' color

family's dog

deer's feet

foxes' tails

rose's thorns

cattle's food

man's children

To make a possessive from a singular noun, you usually add an apostrophe then an "s". (boy's, cow's, chair's)

To make a possessive from plural nouns that end in "s", add an apostrophe. (girls', dogs', doctors')
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But we often find newspapers reporying
Rooney goal proves enough for manchester united.I aiways think it should be rooney's goal.
Please clarify.
Thank you
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nagariyaBut we often find newspapers reporyingRooney goal proves enough for manchester united.I aiways think it should be rooney's goal.
This does not answer the question of how to form the possessive of nouns, does it?
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