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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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Lesson Plan
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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Handout
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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Activity
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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Handout
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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Apostrophes and Plurals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Apostrophes are generally not used to form English plurals, but there are a few exceptions.
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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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Handout
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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Unit Plan
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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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Elc Study Zone: Irregular Plurals of Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A chart containing information on how to form plurals with irregular nouns, and two exercises to practice the skills learned in the chart.
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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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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This matching game has students match the singular and plural possessive nouns to their plural forms while remembering the location of each pair. Java is required.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Flashcards is an interactive version of flashcards; one side of the card has a noun and the other has the possessive form of the noun. Students just click on the card to see the other side.
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Interactive
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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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Funky Plurals Challenge Board

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An interactive Jeopardy-style game for one or two players. Students answer questions by typing the plural forms of the nouns provided in the following categories: Plurals-Latin Words, Plurals-Greek Words, Plurals-Y Words, Plurals-O...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plural Possessive

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson students will be able to identify and use plural possessive nouns.
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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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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Apostrophe Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the rules for the uses and misuses of the apostrophe including contractions and omissions, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, how to write joint possession, plurals, apostrophes with surrounding punctuation, and...
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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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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abstract Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th
The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.
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Interactive
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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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: The Apostrophe

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on the three uses for apostrophes: forming possessives of nouns, forming plurals of lowercase letters, and showing omission of letters and provides examples of each.
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Unit Plan
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.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Match singular and possessive nouns with their plural forms in this click and match game. Java is required.

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