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Welcome to this tutorial.

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Today we're going to talk about possessive nouns.

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Let's get started.

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Now the possessive form is used with nouns referring to people groups of people countries and animals.

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It shows a relationship of belonging between one thing and another.

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Have a look at the example over here.

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Lisa's aunt is a doctor note that the word Lisa's in the sentence is in a possessive form.

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And it shows the relationship she has with her aunt now to form the possessive.

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Simply add an apostrophe plus as to the noun is in the examples below my brother's computer was stolen

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a week ago children's toys were on the ground.

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And if the noun already ends in as just add an apostrophe for example students homework will be assessed

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leader

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and four names ending in s..

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You can either add an apostrophe plus as or just an apostrophe.

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Note that the first option is more common for example they want to sell James's car now study some of

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the fixed expressions where they possessive form is used.

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For example a day's work a month's pay in a year's time.

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For God's sake

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also note the deepest passive is also used to refer to shops restaurants churches universities etc.

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using the name or job title of the owner.

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Have a look at the examples below.

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I want to go to you guys for dinner.

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Pete has an appointment at the dentist's at 10 a.m..