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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

pronouns are the words someone, anyone, somebody, anybody,
everyone, everybody, no one, nobody, and one.
someone’s jacket

anybody’s mistake

Follow these rules to make nouns and indefinite pronouns possessive.

Rules for Forming Possessives

Add an Apostrophe + s

Rule Singular Nouns Plural Nouns
1. to singular nouns and child's toy children's game
to plural nouns that boss's office men's shirts
don’t end is s. Mr. and Mrs. Smith's house women's dresses
Mr. and Mrs. Jones's
children
2. to indefinite pronouns.
Someone’s jacket
nobody's fault
3. to abbreviations.
NAFTA's success
the UN's members

Add an Apostrophe Alone
to plural nouns ending engineering
in s. students' club
actresses'
performances
the Smiths' house
the Joneses' children

Plural of Letters of the Alphabet

Use an apostrophe + s to make letters of the alphabet plural.

There are four s's and four i's in the word Mississippi.

Caution! The teacher gave ten A's and two F's last semester.

1. Don't confuse it's and its. It 's is a contraction of it is. lts is a possessive
pronoun. Possessive pronouns (my, your, our, his, her, its, their) never
have apostrophes.

It’s hot today The book lost its cover
2. Don't confuse the contraction of a noun + is arid the possessive form
of the noun.

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