Singular and plural nouns and how they're taught in primary school, plus how KS1 and KS2 children learn about the formation of irregular plurals and how to use possessive apostrophes. What are singular and plural? A noun names an object, person or place. When a noun is singular, it mean...
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Children's morphological awareness: can the use of apostrophes and capital letters be improved through intervention? Results demonstrated that the intervention group significantly improved their use of plural possessives (e.g., trees'), but not singular possessives (e.g., tree's) or plurals (e...
Ultimately, plural nouns are learned by hearing and using them repeatedly until the use is automatic. Stimulus-Response Activities The basic activity associated with singular-plural skills is this: given a singular, supply the plural. This format works for in-class activities, homework and tests. ...
A possessive pronoun shows who or what owns something. My, your, his, and her are singular possessive nouns. Plural Possessive Pronouns A plural possessive pronoun shows who or what owns something. Its, our, your, and their are plural possessive pronouns. Possessive Pronouns Singular Possessive ...
Apostrophes: feeling possessive? Apostrophes to denote possession can be controversial, with some authors and editors arguing that we should use them less, or that they should be eliminated altogether. Indeed, there is a trend to prefer the non- possessive form of epony... Richard A. Clark -...