Language Tree SB 2

Unit 17

Language: nouns that show possession

When something belongs to a person, animal or thing, we usually put ’ s after the name of the person to whom it belongs. Samuel ’ s drum the horse ’ s tail

1 Rewrite these sentences, adding the ’ in the correct place.

1 Mama Rosas bread was very tasty. 2 The mans horse was old. 3 The potters baby was hungry. 4 Samuels drum was big.

5 The birds beak was long. 6 The boys heart was kind. 7 Moms keys are here. 8 The teachers bag is green.

2 Look at the pictures. Use ’s to show who owns each of these things.

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Example: 2 Lidia’s hat

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Samuel

Lidia

Tell pupils that ’ is called an apostrophe .

• For more work on possessive nouns, see Workbook 2 pages 59–60.

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