Replace the possessive case by a prepositional group where possible.

1. The only thing that stood out clearly was his parents’ house. 2. Nobody could explain the young girls’ behaviour at yesterday’s dinner. 3. The boy got his first week’s salary and looked very proud. 4. You don’t object to the speaker’s proposal, do you? 5. We found the boy looking through a children’s magazine. 6. When is your sister’s birthday? 7. What is Jill’s address? 8. My parents’ house is near the city centre. (the /) 9. Maria’s spoken English is very good. 10. My brother’s job is very interesting. 11. Pat’s favourite colour is blue.

5. Join two nouns. Sometimes you have to use an apostrophe ( ’ ) with or without s. Sometimes you have to use … of…

the camera/Tom, the eyes/cat, the daughter/Charles, the today/newspaper, the name/your/wife, the name/this street, the new manager/the company, the result/the football match, the car/Mike’s parents, the new dean/the faculty, the garden/our neighbours, the ground floor/the building, the children/Don and Mary, the economic policy/the government, the house/my aunt and uncle.

6. Fill in the blanks with the nouns from the list. Complete the sentences using -’ or -’s.

car definition home desk husband newspaper compositions jobs program father rays toys product child lives house

daughter

Example:

A man is his castle. (an old saying)

A man's home is his castle. (an old saying)

1. The sun are very strong at the Equator.

2. The childrenare in the garden.

3. Menare very different from women's.

4. My dictionary of a noun isn't very good.

5. My bossneeds repairing.

6. My parentsis in the centre of our town.

7. The Presidentis not very good.

8. Is Betsy Jonesin the other room?

9. Charlesis a famous lawyer.

10. Linda is a lovely young girl.

11. Our daughteris in the army.

12. My company is very good.

13. Todayis full of interesting news.

14. The students________________ are on the teacher.

15. People are interesting to a novelist.

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