Question

Перевірити граматику й виконати завдання


Study this summary before you do the exercise that follows.

1. We show possession in English with the genitive form of a noun.
- add "s to singular nouns and names not ending in -s: a boy's tie, Tom's hat
- add's to singular nouns ending in -s: an actress's career, a waitress's job
- add's to irregular plural nouns: children's games, sheep's wool
- add an apostrophe (') after the -s of regular plurals: the girls' uniforms
- add's to names ending in -s: Charles's address, St. James's Park
2. When we want to show possession with things, we can use of: the leg of the table (or we use a compound noun: the table-leg).
We use's and s' with some non-living things:
- fixed phrases: the earth's surface, the ship's company, journey's end
- time phrases (singular): an hour's journey, a day's work, a month's salary
- time phrases (plural): two hours'journey, two days' work, two months' salary.
Open the brackets and put the correct possessive form

1) This is……….bike. (John)
2) Let's go to the ……... party (Smiths)
3) The………..room is upstairs. (children)
4) ……….sister is twelve years old. (Peter)
5) …………..and…………school is very strict. (Kate - Robb)
6) ………..shoes are on the second floor. (men)
7) My………car was not expensive. (parents)
8) ………….CD player is new. (Charles)
9) This is the…………dress. (girl)

10) These are the…………pencils. (boys)

Answer 1

This is John's bike
Lets go to the Smith's party
The children's room is upstairs.
Kate's and Robb's school is very strict
Man's  shoes are on the second floor
My parents' car was not expensive

This is the girl's dress
These are boys' pencils ( если карандаши мальчиков)
Надеюсь тебе это поможет