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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

Asking questions

Whose car is it?

It's Anne's car.

It's her car.

It's hers.

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

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Mary looks so beautiful! Do you know ?
It must be very expensive!
were written at , do you remember them?
Suzan, I can't find . Look! It's at
Whose dog is on ? It's .
Caroline! Have you seen ? She can't find them. This is , it's very nice and comfortable.
I need a pair of glasses, so I'm going to this afternoon.
I have to study for tomorrow.
The bank is only from here.
has been postponed because of the weather.

Whose sticks are they? They are .
They are
Whose car is it? It's .Whose sceptre is it?It's .
Whose cup is this? It's not mine, it's .

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