The possessive form for "home of an animal" is the "animal's home".
The apostrophe is used for possessive nouns and for contractions. In some rare cases, such as letters and numbers, an apostrophe is used with S to create a plural noun.
Possessive nouns show ownership or relationship, indicating that something belongs to someone or something else (e.g. the dog's bone, Sarah's car). Possessive pronouns are used to replace a noun and show possession without using the noun itself (e.g. mine, yours, his, hers).
Possessive nouns are, as the name suggests, nouns used to show possession of an object. Possessive nouns are achieved by using an apostrophe in conjunction with a noun. For example: Timmy's dog is brown. In this sentence, Timmy's is a possessive noun, as the apostrophe exists to show that the dog belongs to Timmy. Possessive pronouns, accordingly, replace a noun or noun phrase to avoid unnecessary repetition. There are eight possessive pronouns in the English language: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs and whose, although its is rarely used as a pronoun. For example: Where are my books? Yours are over there; these books are mine. Both yours and mine are possessive pronouns in this sentence.
In order to form possessive nouns and contractions, you need an apostrophe (').An apostrophe is used to form possessive nouns (cat > cat's) and contractions (it is > it's).To form possessive nouns, an apostrophe and an s are added to the end of a word; for some words that already end with an s, just an apostrophe is added after the s at the end of the word. Examples:The shoes of my mother = my mother'sshoes.The leaves of the tree = the tree'sleaves.The trunk of the elephant = the elephant'strunk.The traffic of the city = the city'straffic.A contraction is a shortened version of the written and spoken forms of a word, made by replacing some of the letters with an apostrophe. Examples:The words I am = I'm.The words I will = I'll.The words you are = you're.the words you will = you'll.the words could not = couldn't.the words should not = shouldn't.Example sentences using possessive nouns and contractions:The dog's paws are muddy. He can't come in until you clean them.What's that package? That'sKaren's new coat.It's a beautiful day for Kevin's party.
Firm's. Any singular possessive where the word does not end in 's' is apostrophe 's' ('s).
No, "candidates" does not require an apostrophe before the "s" because it is a plural noun, not possessive.
"Companies" is the plural "company" and doesn't require an apostrophe unless you are using a plural possessive. With the plural possessive, the apostrophe should appear at the end of the word after the 's'.
A noun that shows ownership using an apostrophe is a possessive noun.
No, unless your name has an apostrophe in it or you are using it in the possessive.
daughter's wedding
The plural noun soldiers adds only the apostrophe after the -s for the possessive form: soldiers'
A possessive apostrophe means just that. It means that the apostrophe is indicating that that noun has ownership or possession, purpose or origin of the noun that comes after it.Examples:This is John's house.John owns the house, therefore, it is John's house.We went to the children's playground.The playground intended for children.The term 'possessive apostrophe' is used to distinguish the apostrophe from a contraction using an apostrophe.