Plural, possessive & the greengrocer’s apostrophe
4 RepliesWe 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
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Love this. I will be showing the examples to my Year 3s not my Year 3’s 🙂
Oh dear, I tried to put a laugh emoji in but it doesn’t appear. Anyway, a laugh emoji.
Another lovely video explaining these concepts. thank you Alison
Thanks for the lovely feedback, Karen.