37. Word Lists and Sentences

1. Jolene needs to check if they’re coming in the morning or if their train comes later.
2. Perhaps we’ll stay at a motel close by so we won’t disrupt your home life too much.
3. The party will be from two until nine o’clock so just come when you’ve time. (Note: o’clock is from the old fashioned expression “of the clock”)
4. She’d prefer to transcribe all her class notes herself to better understand the information.

1. Carmen’s leg snapped when she slipped on the steps of her friend’s deck.
2. The leg’s swelling started to subside once she got some ice on her leg.
3. The ice was folded in one of her sister’s dishcloths and was placed on Carmen’s leg.
4. We drove as quickly as we could in Carmen’s car trying to miss Lunenburg’s traffic rush.
5. We promptly got the clerk’s help when we came in with Carmen’s leg all strapped up with the ice pack.
6. The emergency department’s lobby and its hall were packed with people coming and going in all directions.

1. The Browns’ grass is so long it will take a hand clipper to cut first before the electric one.
2. He mapped all the vacation books’ locations on his globe before he chose one with a place that really sparked his passion.
3. You’ll need to unwind those or you’ll get all the wires’ connections mixed up.

Review Words

What Says?

Spelling and Sentence Dictation

Review

Apostrophe; contractions, possessives singular, possessives plural

In this lesson, we learned about contractions. A contraction pulls two words together.  (Prefix -con, meaning together, and Latin root -tract -, meaning pull). The apostrophe (‘) shows that some letters were omitted. (Latin root -mit-, meaning to send, sent away). For example, the contraction for did not is didn’t.

We also learned about the apostrophe s, which means belonging to. We can have a singular possessive as in Nancy’s book. The book belongs only to Nancy. Or a possessive plural as in the boys’ desks. The desks belong to more than one boy.

In summary use ‘s to indicate that an object(s) belongs to only one and s’ to indicate that it or they belong to more than one.

Practice

1. Turn the following words into contractions.
   

   is not

   will not

   she is

   would have

   they will

2. Write out the words in each of the following contractions.
   

   they’d

   they’ve

   didn’t

   who’s

   he’ll

3. Complete the following chart to show either singular or plural possession. Is it ‘s or s’?
   

   Singular Noun	Possession	Singular Possession
   Dog	bone
   skater	bag
   bird	feather
   lady	drink

   Plural Noun	Possession	Plural Possession
   Tigers	stripes
   Detectives	badge
   men	room
   girls	pumps