Thursday, March 11, 2010

Possessive Practice Questions

Possessives:
1) sons'-in-law houses
2) Arkansas' rivers
3) Jim and Joan's house
4) Ph.D.s' research
5) McGraw-Hill's Inc advertising
6) electrician Fred's estimate
7) anyone else's ideas
8) witnesses' depositions
9) the airport's upper level
10) one of my friend's daughters


1) The tree surgeon could not save the spruce's limb.
2) The user's manual for the new software package was so confusing that most consumers returned it to the company.
3) Windows' intuitive commands make it easy for users to move from one application to another.
4) I will be in Hawaii on Mother's Day, New Mexico on April Fools Day, and California on Veteran's Day.
5) Grover Cleveland was the peoples' choice.
6) Each participant filled out the Readers' Comment Form.
7) Now that he has his bachelor's degree, he plans to get his master's, and possible his doctorate.
8) The National Secretaries' Conference will be held in Houston this year.
9) For the sake of appearance, the feuding vice presidents kept their differences to themselves during the monthly staff meeting.
10) My brothers'-in-law idea was to have the family reunion at a spa.
11) We have been invited to a holiday party at the Roth's.
12) The telephone company president's idea was to offer discount rates to seniors.

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