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Possessive case

Genitive case

Summary
Bob's schoolbag	General rule: owner + 's + thing
The children's skittles	Plural NOT ending in -s => general rule
The ghosts' house	Plural ending in -s => only an apostrophe
Thomas's school	Not a plural ending in -s => general rule
Pythagoras' theorem	Not a plural ending in -s => general rule
Ken and Jean's dog	ONE dog belonging to Ken AND Jean
Ann's and Tom's dogs	TWO dogs: one belonging to Ann AND one belonging to Tom
Freddy's bike and Hannah's	'bike' is not required twice, you can add it.
At the grocer's, the florist's	Shops: 'shop' is omitted
My boss's boss's boss	Rare

 

Latin and Greek names
Dickens's novels  /  Dickens' novels	Hercules' labours (ici l'Hydre de Lerne)

With everyone, somebody, anybody, no one...

Everybody's business is nobody's business (prov.)

It's not mine! It must be someone else's book.

Other uses:

Time and distance.

Let's take a ten minutes' break

A week's trip

The hundred years'  war

A five miles' drive

A two kilometres' walk

After a hard day's work he is exhausted.

Today's paper

Last night's events

Next year's elections

New Year's eve

London's museums

Switzerland is one of the world's cleanest countries.

A sailor's hat

Whose rocket is it?
It's Tintin and Snowy's rocket.

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1.

Mary looks so beautiful! Do you know the price of her dressher dress's priceher price's dress ?  It must be very expensive!
The names of the actorsThe names' actorsThe actors' names  were written at the beginning's filmthe beginning of the filmthe film's beginning , do you remember them?
Suzan, I can't find John's addressthe address of Johnthe John's address . Look! It's at the top of the pagethe top's pagethe page's top .
Whose dog is on the house's roofthe roof of the housethe roof's house ? It's the dog of our neighboursour neighbours'our neighbours.

2.

Caroline! Have you seen the shoes of MumMum's shoesthe Mum shoes ? She can't find them.
This is my grandparents's housemy grandparents' housethe house of my grandparents , it's very nice and comfortable.
I need a  pair of glasses, so I'm going to the opticians'the optician'sthe optician this afternoon.
I have to study Archimedes's principleArchimedes' principlethe principle of Archimedes for tomorrow.
The bank is only a few minutes's walka few minutes' walka few minute's walk from here.
match's tomorrowtomorrow's matchtomorrows' match has been postponed because of the weather.

3.

Whose sticks are they? They are Thomson's and Thompson's sticksthe sticks of Thomson and ThompsonThomson and Thompson's sticks .
They are the detective's sticksthe detectives' sticksthe sticks of the detectives .
Whose car is it?  It's Thomson and Thompson's carThomson's and Thompson carThomson's and Thompson's car .
Whose sceptre is it?  It's King Ottokar's sceptreKing's Ottokar sceptreking's Ottokar's sceptre .
Whose cup is this?  It's not mine, it's yoursyour's.