Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. OF NOUNS How to Form the Possessive Case.1—As a rule, the possessive of nouns in the Singular number is formed by adding an apostrophe and " s" ('s): as, " The Joy's coat." Often the pronunciation of the added "s" makes a new syllable; and if this additional syllable makes an unpleasant sound, the possessive is indicated by the apostrophe alone ('): as, "For goodness1 sake." The putting in or the leaving out of the "s" in such cases is chiefly a matter of taste. If the "s" is sounded, it is always written ; and whenever there is doubt, it is well to follow the regular rule : as, " Horace's odes," " Charles's ball," " Dickens's David Copperfield." In the Plural number, when the nominative plural ends in "it," the possessive case is formed by adding an apostrophe alone ('), If the nominative plural does not end in " s," an apostrophe and an " s" (') an; both added, as in the singular: as, "Men's and boys' shoes." The possessive case of Compound nouns and expressions used as compound nouns is formed by adding the proper sign of the possessive to the end of the compound : as, "That is my sister-in-law'8 pony," "This is the Prince of Wales's palace." EXERCISE VII.3 1. Write Hie possemre case, singular find plural, of: Actor, king, fairy, calf, child, goose, lady, monkey, mouse, ox, woman, dew, eagle, princess, elephant, man, witness, prince, fox, fanner, countess, mouth, horse, day, year, lion, wolf, thief, Englishman. 1 " Foundations," pp. 41-43. 8 To The Teaciier.—To have its full value this should be given as a dictation exercise. 2. Write the possessive case of: James, Dickens, his sister Mary, Miss Austen, the Prince of Wales, Frederick the Great, Harper and Brothers, father - in - law, Charles, Jones, William the Conqueror, Henry the Eight...