Grammar SkillsPlural Possessive Nouns

Plural Possessive NounsThe boys played soccer.

Is this sentence talking about one boy or more than one?

More than one

Plural Possessive NounsThe boys uniform got dirty.

Is this sentence talking about one boy or more than one?

More than one

Plural Possessive Nouns There is a difference between boys and boys.

The apostrophe is used to show belonging.

Plural Possessive NounsA plural nouns means more than one and usually end in s.

Plural Possessive NounsA plural possessive noun shows that something belongs to more than one person, animal, or thing. These nouns usually end in s.

Plural Possessive Nouns Some plural nouns such as children and mice, do not end in s. To form the possessive of these nouns, add s.

Plural Possessive NounsThere were twelve children at the twins birthday party.

What is the plural possessive noun?

twins

What belongs to the twins?

The birthday party.

Plural Possessive Nouns The twins passed out the childrens party favors.

What is the plural possessive noun?

childrens

What belongs to the children?

The party favors.

Plural Possessive Nouns The boys favors were in red bags and the girls were in yellow ones.

What is the plural possessive noun?

boys and girls

What belongs to the boys and the girls?

The red and yellow bags.

Plural Possessive NounsThe candles wax dripped onto the cake.

What is the plural possessive noun?

candles

What belongs to the candle?

The wax.

Plural Possessive Nouns The twins enjoyed their friends singing.

What is the plural possessive noun?

friends

What belongs to the friends?

The singing.

Plural Possessive Nouns Tim and Kim opened their guests gifts.

What is the plural possessive noun?

guests

What belongs to the guests?

The gifts.

Plural Possessive NounsAfter the games, Kim gave out the winners prizes.

What is the plural possessive noun?

winners

What belongs to the winners?

The prizes.

Plural Possessive NounsThe children tied all the balloons strings together.

What is the plural possessive noun?

baloons

What belongs to the baloons?

The strings.

Plural Possessive NounsEveryone helped clean up the presents wrappings.

What is the plural possessive noun?

presents

What belongs to the presents?

The wrappings.

Plural Possessive NounsThe children watched for their parents cars to arrive.

What is the plural possessive noun?

parents

What belongs to the parents?

The cars.