English Version 2.0 / Level 5 / Language / Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content description
understand how to use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and how to use apostrophes where there is multiple possession in regular and irregular nouns
Elaborations
learning that in Standard Australian English, regular plural nouns ending in ‘s’ form the possessive by adding just the apostrophe, for example ‘the students’ classroom’
learning that in Standard Australian English, for proper nouns the regular possessive form is always possible but a variant form without the second ‘s’ is sometimes found, for example ‘James’s house’ or ‘James’ house’
learning that when there is more than one owner, the apostrophe is usually used for the last owner in the list, for example ‘the cat and kitten’s bowls’
using commas to signal a prepositional phrase, for example ‘On Saturday, before it rained, we went to the beach.’
Code
VC2E5LA09
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