Completion requirements
Read this section to learn about apostrophes, another important and multi-purpose punctuation. What you read here will connect to ideas you'll read about in the next section about confused words.
Apostrophes Activity
Practice 1: Rewrite the following sentences, using apostrophes to indicate possession.
For example, "the house of my father" becomes "my father's house".
- If you don't want the sweater, I'll give it to the son of my friend.
- Take the westbound train to the birthplace of Shakespeare.
- He'll enjoy the movie if you don't tell the ending of it.
- The binder of the tutor couldn't be found anywhere.
- The backpacks of the students were jammed with books.
- The family looked for the lost cat in the tree house of the children.
- Penny was unfamiliar with the titles of the books.
- Please put the flowers on the desk of my boss.
- Antonio feared the wrath of his father-in-law.