Grammar

Today, we are going to take a look at possessive nouns.

What does it mean to possess something? If you possess something, you have it or own it. This little girl possesses a doll.

There’s an easier way to write this sentence. We can use a possessive noun. The little girl’s doll. Because we added the apostrophe s, we know that the doll belongs to the little girl. The apostrophe s shows possession.

Let’s try one together. The bike belongs to the boy. Who or what possesses the item? The boy! How can we use a possessive noun to show that the bike belongs to the boy?

The boy’s bike. We add the apostrophe s to boy to show that it’s his bike.
Let’s try one more. The bone belongs to the dog. Who or what possesses something? The dog. The dog needs to become our possessive noun. The dog’s bone. We made dog possessive by adding the apostrophe s.

We will practice adding apostrophes to possessive nouns more this week.