- Don't look directly at the sun. Don't look at directly even if you are
wearing sunglasses. The intensity of its light can injure your eyes. - Do bees sleep at night? Or do work in the hive all night long? You
never see after dark. What do do after night falls? - The apples were rotten, so the children didn't eat even though
were really hungry. - The scent of perhme rises. According to one expert, you should put
on the soles of your feet. - Even though clean, safe water is fundamental to human health, an estimated
800 million people in the world are still without. Unsafe water causes
illnesses. contributes to high numbers of deaths in children under
five years of age. - Magazines are popular. I enjoy reading have news
about recent events and discoveries. Recently, I read about "micromachiines."
are human-made machines that are smaller than a grain of sand. One
scientist called "the greatest scientific invention of our time."
-1 1 POSSESSIVE NOUNS
- 1 SINGULAR: (a) I how the stuaknt's name.
PLURAL: (b) I know the students' names.
PLURAL: (c) I know the children's names.
An apostrophe (') and an -8 are used with nouns to
show possession...
(d) the student + the student's name
my baby + my baby'sname
a man + aman's name
(e) James + Jamss'umnes's name
(f) the students + the studsnts' names
my babies + my babies' names
(g) men + men's names
the children + the children's namesCOMPARE
(h) Tom's here.
(i) Tom's brother is here.SINGULAR POSSESSIVE NOUN:A singular noun that ends in -s has two possible
possessive forms: James' OR James's.
PLURAL POSSESSIVE NOUN:
noun + -s + aoosnophe ('1
IRREGUIAR PLURAL POSSESSIVE NOUN:
noun + apostrophe (') + -8
(An irregular plural noun is a plural noun that does
not end in -8: children, men,people, man. See
Chart 6-2, p. 158.)
In (h): Tom's is not a possessive. It is a conuaction
of Tom is, used in informal writing.
In (i): Tom's is a possessive.Nouns and Pmnouna 173