Possessive pronouns are pronouns used to show ownership. They tell us who owns what when we don’t want to or don’t need to repeat the name of what is owned. As with all pronouns, possessive pronouns replace a noun (the word pronoun comes from Latin and means in place of […]

Possessive Apostrophes are added to the end of a noun to show possession‏‎. This car belongs to John. It is John’s car. That dog belongs to that girl. It is that girl’s dog. Note, a Possessive Apostrophe is sometimes known as a Saxon Genitive. Plural Nouns If there is a […]

We use possessive adjectives with nouns to show possession‏‎ or ownership. Like most adjectives‏‎ they come before the noun which they describe: {possessive adjective} + {noun} your + car his + mother its + food There are seven possessive adjectives in English: my (something belongs to me – I own […]

A Phrase is a group of two or more words‏‎ which work grammatically the same as a single word. As such a phrase can function as a verb‎, a noun, an adverb‏‎, a preposition or an adjective‏‎. For example these are all phrases: the old man standing on the beach […]

A Period (AmE) or Full Stop (BrE) is a punctuation‏‎ mark placed at the end of a sentence‏‎. The symbol itself comes from Aristophanes of Byzantium who invented the system of punctuation where the height of placement of a dot on the line determined its meaning. A dot at the […]