Some example sentences for possessive nouns:
The bird's nest had blue yarn entwined with the grass and twigs.
I forgot my brother's birthday.
The Browns' house is the one on the corner.
The children's coats all hung in a row.
Patty's bicycle is new. Paul's bicycle is not.
The dog's tail wagged excitedly.
No, possessive nouns do not affect subject-verb agreement. Subject-verb agreement is about ensuring that the subject and verb in a sentence match in terms of number (singular or plural). Possessive nouns simply indicate ownership of something by someone.
To create a possessive sentence, you typically add an apostrophe and an "s" ('s) to the noun that owns or possesses the object. For example, "Sara's car is blue" shows possession of the car by Sara. Alternatively, for plural nouns ending in "s," you would only add an apostrophe after the "s" to indicate possession, such as "the students' project."
The pronoun is his, a possessive adjective used to describe the noun 'jeans'.A possessive adjective is placed before a noun to describe that noun as belonging to someone or something.The possessive adjectives are: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
The dog's owner is looking for him. dog's - singular possessive noun The teachers' cars have been stolen. teachers' -plural possessive noun
A possessive noun shows ownership or possession of something in a sentence. It is formed by adding an apostrophe and the letter "s" ('s) to a singular noun, or just an apostrophe (') to a plural noun that already ends in "s". For example, in the sentence "The dog's tail wagged," "dog's" is a possessive noun indicating that the tail belongs to the dog.
Example sentence: A possessive noun is a noun indicating ownership, possession, purpose, or origin.
No, possessive nouns do not affect subject-verb agreement. Subject-verb agreement is about ensuring that the subject and verb in a sentence match in terms of number (singular or plural). Possessive nouns simply indicate ownership of something by someone.
The cat's tail was fluffy and well-groomed.
The possessive form for the plural noun sleeves is sleeves'. Example sentence: Both sleeves' buttons are missing.
The possessive form of the noun fox is fox's. example sentence: We saw a fox's footprints in the snow.
The possessive form of "children" is "children's." Sentence example: The children's toys were scattered across the floor.
The dog's owner is looking for him. dog's - singular possessive noun The teachers' cars have been stolen. teachers' -plural possessive noun
An example sentence for the plural possessive form of the bottles of the babies:The babies' bottles and formula are provided by their parents.
The sentence "the towels of the hotels" contains no possessive noun. If however you rewrite the sentence as "the hotels' towels" then the possessive noun is hotels'.
In the sentence, "The baby chicks are running around.", the plural noun is chicks.There are no proper nouns, there are no possessive nouns.Placing an apostrophe after the noun chicks does not make it a possessive noun. A possessive noun must 'posses' another word in the sentence; for example:"The baby chicks' mother is running around."A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing; for example:"The baby chicks' mother Penny is running around.
Example sentence for the plural possessive noun: The witnesses' statements were added to the police report.
Example sentence: The elephant's tusks and ears were large.