Possessive Nouns: Singular Vs Plural.pdf

1. The car's brakes failed to operate on the snowy mountain road.
- Correct form: car's
- Explanation: 'Car' is singular, and the apostrophe followed by the letter 's' indicates possession, indicating that the sentence refers to the brakes of a specific car.

2. On weekends, students love to sleep in.
- Correct form: students'
- Explanation: 'Students' is plural and takes the possessive form 's' to indicate that the action of sleeping in belongs to the group of students.

3. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity changed our understanding of time.
- Correct form: Albert Einstein's
- Explanation: 'Albert Einstein' is a proper noun referring to a specific person, and using the apostrophe + 's' indicates possession, showing that the theory belongs to him.

4. Civil liberties were bought with blood.
- Correct form: Civil liberties'
- Explanation: 'Civil liberties' is a plural noun phrase, and the possessive form 's' is used to show that the liberties are collectively owned or shared.

5. Today's lesson taught us how to indicate possession.
- Correct form: Today's
- Explanation: 'Today' is singular and takes the possessive form 's' to modify the noun it describes, indicating a lesson related to the current day.

6. Fast food has its downsides.
- Correct form: its
- Explanation: 'Fast food' is singular, and 'it's' (it is) is used to indicate possession, showing that the sentence acknowledges the inherent issues or downsides of fast food as a whole.