Lesson 34

Possessives

Spelling Focus: To form possessives of

• singular nouns, add and apostrophe and s: baby's
• plural nouns that end in s, add only and apostrophe: babies'

On the test, you will need to be able to spell the correct version of the word (singular or plural). The list will be given in a different order than this one.

1. Dad's
2. friend's *
3. girl's
4. girls'
5. teacher's
6. teachers'
7. baby's
8. babies'
9. family's
10. families'
11. grandma's
12. grandpa's
13. brother's
14. brothers'
15. boy's
16. boys'
17. aunt's
18. aunts'
19. lady's
20. ladies'

*indicates words that are most commonly misspelled by fourth graders in their writing.

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