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Genitive - the apostrophe

HOW TO USE THE APOSTROPHE

I) POSSESSION:

General rule: Tom 's dog

- also with a proper noun: James's hat
- also with a compound noun: my brother-in-law's bike
- also with a plural noun: the children's toys

- BUT not with a plural noun ending in "s": my parents' house

II) TO SHOW LETTERS HAVE BEEN OMITTED:
- contractions: don't (do not) / it's (it is) / he'll (he will)

- Rhythm 'n' Blues (Rhythm and Blues)

- Toys 'r ' us (Toys are us)

- fo 'c 's' le (fo 'c' sle / forecastle)

- o'clock (of the clock)

III) LENGTHS, DISTANCES, YEARS:
- a minute's silence

- ten days' training

- he took an hour's walk

he took a two kilometres' walk

- A week's delay could ruin the whole project

- the 1960's ou 60's the sixties

The hundred years' war (1337-1453)

IV) DAYS AND MONTHS:

New Year's eve in Sydney

January's gift (a 2008 calendar)

Sunday's paper / yesterday's paper

V) COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS, CITIES, PLACES:

I've got an appointment at the dentist's.

Italy's monuments:
colosseum leaning tower

London's parks and gardens

Africa's elephants

VI) FOR CATEGORIES:

- a woman's hat

- a man's hat

- a woman's job Jeannette Rankin 1880-1973 pacifist (USA) :

Peace is a woman's job - The vision of Jeannette Rankin through theater and film

- a dog's life:

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'No land' is a term used to describe a non occupied land between two opposing forces.

rings - unlike the rings of other planets - are very bright.

I went to the for bread,

It was a five walk from my place.

Humans are affecting the atmosphere through the greenhouse effect.

Little clothing is on the first floor,

and department is on the second.

battle of Rocroi (1643).The Thirty War was fought between 1618 and 1648.

During the war population was reduced by 30% on average.

In three time,

have to begin school again.

Our house is one drive from the airport.

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