Possessive Practice Questions

Possessives

1. Homes of my sons’ in laws.
2. rivers’ of Arkansas
3. house of Jim and Joan’s
4. Research of the PhD’s
5. Advertising’s of McGraw-Hill, Inc.
6. estimates’ of Fred the electrician
7. idea’s of anyone else
8. depositions’ of the witnesses
9. The upper level’s of the airport
10. The daughter of one of my best friend’s

Apostrophe or apostrophe’s with an S

1. The tree surgeon could not save the white spruce’s limb.
2. The user’s manual for the new software package was so confusing that most consumers returned it to the company.
3. Windows’ initiative commands make it easy for users’ to move from one application to another.
4. I will be in Hawaii on Mother’s day, in New Mexico on April Fool’s day, and in California on Veteran’s day.
5. Grover Cleveland was the peoples’ choice.
6. Each participant filled out the Reader’s Comment Form.
7. Now that he has his bachelor’s degree, he plans to get his master’s, and possibly his doctorate.
8. For appearance sake, the feuding vice presidents’ kept their differences to themselves during the monthly staff meeting.
9. The National Secretaries’ Conference will be held in Houston this year.
10. My brother’s in law idea was to have the family reunion at the spa.
11. We have been invited to a holiday party at the Roth’s
12. The telephone company’s president’s idea was to offer discount rates to seniors