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Plural, possessive & the greengrocer’s apostrophe

We usually put a letter ‘s’ at the end of regular plural and possessive nouns. Often these get mixed up, for example by greengrocers selling orange’s, banana’s and apple’s.

Here’s a five minute video explaining allomorphs (different versions) of these two inflectional noun suffixes, and how they combine. I hope it helps you explain them to kids.

Alison Clarke

Speech Pathologist