What is the irregular plural possessive?

Answer 1

Case refers the declension of nouns, pronouns and adjectives, etc. English does not use declensions as other languages do. Russian uses six cases, German four. In German for example, the nominative case of "the man" is "der Mann" and is used as the subject of a sentence - The man is here (Der Mann ist hier). The genitive case of "the man" is "des Mannes" (of the man) and is used to denote possession - I have the man's book (Ich habe das Buch des Mannes) The dative case of "the man" is "dem Manne' (to the man) and is used to denote the indirect object - I give the book to the man (Ich gebe dem Manne das Buch). The accusative case of "the man" is "den Mann" and is used to denote the direct object - I see the man (Ich sehe den Mann). In English, the nomative case "the man" is used for the subject. The possessive case "the man's" is used to denote possession and the objective case "the man" is used to denote the object. Singular possessive pronouns are: my, your, his/her. The plural possessive pronouns are: our, your and their.

Answer 2

Possessive pronoun takes the place of a noun that belongs to someone or something.

The plural possessive pronouns are ours, yours, and theirs.

Examples:

Ours is the house on the corner.

Children are invited to our party, you and Jim can bring yours.

This one is nice but the Browns have a blue one. I like theirs.

Answer 3

There are two types of pronouns that show possession:

• possessive pronouns, a word that takes the place of a noun that belongs to someone or something.

The possessive pronouns are mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.

• possessive adjectives, a word placed before a noun to describe that noun as belonging to someone or something.

The possessive adjectives are my, our, your, his, her, its.

Examples:

John lost his math book, this book must be his. (possessive pronoun)

John lost his math book, this must be his book. (possessive adjective)

Another type of pronoun in the possessive case is whose.

The pronoun 'whose' is an interrogative pronoun and a relative pronoun.

Examples:

Whose book is this? (interrogative pronoun)

The book belongs to John whose book was lost. (relative pronoun)

Answer 4

Nouns that are made plural by changing the spelling instead of adding an 's' or 'es' are called irregular plurals.

The possessive form of an irregular plural noun is an irregular plural possessive noun.

Possessive irregular plural nouns that end with an s are formed by adding an apostrophe after the existing s (s').

Forming possessive irregular plural possessive nouns that do not end with s is the same as for regular plurals, add the apostrophe s ('s).

Some examples of irregular plural possessives are:

singular / plural possessive

man / men's

child / children's

person / people's

mouse / mice's

goose / geese's

ox / oxen's

tooth / teeth's

alumnus / alumni's

calf / calves'

leaf / leaves'

life / lives'

medium / media's

Answer 5

A plural possessive refers to something belonging to a group. In this case, the apostrophes is placed after the s at the end of the word.