noun
- words or forms that show ownership or belonging
Usage: grammar
Examples
- The teacher explained how to form possessives with apostrophes.
- Words like ‘my’, ‘your’, and ‘his’ are possessives.
- Students often struggle with possessives ending in ‘s’.
- The grammar book has a chapter on possessives and contractions.
- She marked all the possessives in the sentence with red ink.
- Possessives show relationships between people and things.