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Nouns Showing Separate and Joint Possession
OBJECTIVE • To identify and use nouns that show separate and joint possession
DAILY MAINTENANCE Assign Practice Book page 4, Section 1.8. After students finish, 1. Give immediate feedback. 2. Review concepts as needed. 3. Model the correct answer. Pages 4–5 of the Answer Key contain tips for Daily Maintenance.
WARM-UP Ask pairs of students to choose two objects. Have students construct two phrases using this model: Jim and Sandy’s book Jim’s and Sandy’s books
PRACTICE EXERCISE 1 Before students begin the exercise, remind them that if there is an ’s after each noun, the sentence shows separate possession and that if there is an ’s after the last noun only, the sentence shows joint possession. EXERCISE 2 Have students read the sentences. Ask students which word in each sentence is the possession, or the thing possessed. Explain that usually if the thing possessed is singular, there is joint possession,
To show separate possession, use -’s after each noun. In this sentence Ann and Peter each own a boat. Ann’s and Peter’s boats are in the marina.
To show joint possession, use -’s after the last noun only. In this sentence Tom and Gloria own a boat together. Tom and Gloria’s boat is painted bright blue.
EXERCISE 1 Read each sentence. Tell whether it shows separate or joint possession.
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EXERCISE 4 Ask students what clues in the sentences help them determine the correct possessive forms of the nouns. (Does it make sense that they share the thing possessed? Is the verb form singular or plural?)
Separate possession occurs when two or more people own things independently of one another. Joint possession occurs when two or more people own something together.
Read from a piece of writing that the class is currently reading. Emphasize the nouns showing separate and joint possession.
Read aloud the first paragraph about separate and joint possession. Have students read the rule for showing separate possession. Ask them to look around the room to find similar objects owned by two people and write on the board a sentence about them. (Adam’s and Becky’s jackets are blue.) Have students read the rule for showing joint possession. Ask a volunteer to think of an object he or she owns with someone and to write a sentence about it on the board. (Sara and Tyrone’s puppy is six months old.)
EXERCISE 3 After students have finished the exercise, have volunteers read aloud the sentences and explain how they determined separate or joint possession.
Nouns Showing Separate and Joint Possession
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As you do this, have students each hold a book or together hold one book. After each phrase, ask students to whom the object belongs.
and if the possession is plural, there is generally separate possession.
Ana and Carlos’s party was a lot of fun. Marisha and Laura’s lemonade was delicious. We all liked Carl’s and Peter’s cookies. Todd and Amy’s dance was really graceful. Kim’s and Anita’s jokes were funny. We clapped for Frank and Mandy’s singing. Later we played Brian’s and Tom’s new CDs. Sara and Chelsea’s magic trick left us speechless.
EXERCISE 2 Rewrite each sentence, changing the spelling and punctuation to indicate separate or joint possession.
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Ivan and Jaime ideas about music are very different. Jason and Nicole song was performed very well. Fred Martino and Wayne Faber sisters enjoy rock music. Ed and Sam sister prefers country western music. Margaret and Claudia band played for the dance. Floyd and Javier musical talents are outstanding.
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