Possessive Case (Possessive Nouns or Saxon Genitive)

Bob Wilson, from AutoEnglish, offers a very clear explanation of how to use the possessive case in English.




This slideshow by teacher Henry Kleber offers more complex aspects of the Saxon Genetive:
- The importance of discriminating possessive ‘s with the contracted ‘s (is from the verb to be).
- The apostrophe in nouns ending in –s (two options are possible).
- Biblical names in -s do not take the possessive (the laws of Moses, the life of Jesus).
- The possessive in plural nouns.
- The possessive when it refers to each individual in a group or when it refers to the whole group of people.