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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Bracken Business Communications: Plurals & Possessives[pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the PDF article "Bracken Business Communications: Plurals and Possessives" expaining the rules and exceptions for forming plural and possessive nouns and providing examples of each.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Possessives and Irregular Plurals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This quiz asks students to type in the correct spelling of the plural or possessive as directed and to capitalize any proper nouns. Links are provided to a quiz list, tutorials for plurals and possessives, and the "Guide to Grammar and...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Possessive Forms

For Students 9th - 10th
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
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Get It Write

Get It Write: Making Proper Names Plural but Not Possessive

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial explains how to make your last name plural when sending greetings from your entire family (or anytime you are talking about your entire family.) This is a very common grammatical problem, and it is explained clearly here....
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Advanced (Plural) Possession

For Students 9th - 10th
Possessive plurals have a complicated relationship with apostrophes, but this exercise is here to help you understand it!
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Match It: Sentence Game: Plurals and Possessives

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Fill in the blanks in seven sentences by matching the plural or possessive noun that completes each sentence.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise Plurals & Possessives

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers exercises in the sometimes confusing use of plurals of possessives. In each space write "C" if correct, or "I" if incorrect. Then click on "Submit Application" for the answers.
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Other

Grammar quizzes.com: Possessive Nouns: Indicating Possession

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A series of carts containing rules and examples of possessives including singular and plural common nouns, proper nouns, inanimate nouns, days and holidays, and numbers and letters. A fourteen-question practice exercise follows the...
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Other

Possessives

For Students 11th - 12th
This article contains rules about the correct way to incorporate possessives into college writing. A link with downloadable practice exercises is included at the end of the lesson.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: William Strunk on the Possessive Singular

For Students 9th - 10th
William Strunk Jr.'s "Elements of Style" on the creation of possessive singular nouns. Provided by Bartleby.com
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals and Possessives

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Write a sentence containing each of the twenty-four plural and possessive words listed. When finished, create a PDF of the sentences to print and share.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Possessives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the standard use of apostrophes when using both singular and plural. It also provides a practice exercise.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Plurals and Spelling Rules

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
The rules for spelling plural words and using them properly in English are made fun and easy with this BBC Skillswise worksheet for students.
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Other

K12 Reader: Possessive Nouns

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Take a look at examples of possessive nouns, both singular and plural.
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English Plus+

Grammar Slammer's Apostrophes Showing Possession

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession and examples are provided. Note that links are provided at the bottom of the page for other specific uses of the apostrophe.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession

For Students 9th - 10th
Six slides introducing apostrophes and how they can be used properly with singular and plural nouns to show possession.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to the Possessive

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn to use apostrophes to indicate possession, or ownership -- and when not to use them.
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Quia

Quia: Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This matching game asks students to match singular and possessive nouns with their plural forms. Java is required.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Plural Forms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good explanation of Plural Forms for the student. Site also offers a quiz at the end. L.11-12.2b Spelling
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Teaching Plural Possessives

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
This site focuses on teaching plural possessive nouns and pronouns including what they are and methods of teaching them including using flashcards, and plural possessive Bingo, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy.
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English Plus+

Plural Possessives

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession with plural nouns.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Cases of Nouns and Pronouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this writing and grammar tutorial, learn how to distinguish and use nouns and pronouns in English and whether they are subjective, nominative, possessive, or objective.
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Parts of Speech: Plural and Possessive Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A tutorial explaining the proper apostrophe use of singular and plural possessive nouns followed by a twenty-question exercise to practice this skill.