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5 Punctuation: plural possessive

apostrophes
A Underline the plural owner in each sentence. an example is provided in task 1
1 His parents’ home was in China.
2 The islands’ beaches are beautiful.
3 The astronauts’ spaceship took off.
4 The birds’ wings gave Daedalus an idea.
5 All the hotels’ rooms were booked.

B Write each of these using an apostrophe. an example is provided in task 1

1 the tickets belonging to the people the people's ticlets

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2 the books belonging to the children N

3 the forest belonging to the men N

4 the beaks belonging to the geese N

C Write each of these using an apostrophe. an example is provided in task 1

Use each of them in a sentence of your own.

1 the hole belonging to the mice the mice's hole

N

The cat spent a long time sitting outside the mice's hole.
Sentence N

2 the medals belonging to the athletes N

Sentence N

3 the cars belonging to the women N

Sentence N

Skills: recognising plural possessive nouns; forming plural possessive nouns; forming and using plural
possessive nouns in sentences

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