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Identify the correct possessive form.

1. My (mothers', mother's) garden is full of flowers.
2. The barangay officials brought the (front liner's, front liners') supplies to the field.
3. The local government purchased the (farmers' farmer's) products to be used for relief goods.
4. My (father's, fathers') shoes don't fit me.
5. The local government officials distributed the (beneficiaries', beneficiaries's) cash allowances.

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CASES OF NOUNS

• The property of noun that tells its relationship to other words in the sentence is called a case.
• We have 3 cases of nouns: Subjective, Objective, and Possessive.

Forming the Possessive Case of Nouns

1. It is generally formed by adding s after the apostrophe (') of the singular noun.

Example: Charmy's candy jar

2. It can also be added to the plural nouns that do not end in s.

Example: women's basketball team

3. Possessive case also applies to the plural nouns that end in s.

Example: presidents' conference call

4. Proper nouns that end in s only need an apostrophe to form the possessive case.

Example: Moses' laws

5. Single-syllable names, ending in s or not, take an apostrophe and s.

Example: Zeus's power/Taylor's scarf

Note: We do not use the apostrophe when talking about non-living things. We need to use the of phrase.

Example: rainbow (colors of the rainbow)

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