Goodwill
Gcf Global: Possessives
Tutorial explores how to use possessive nouns and adjectives correctly.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to the Possessive
Learn to use apostrophes to indicate possession, or ownership -- and when not to use them.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Possessive Pronoun and Adjectives
Learn to use possessive pronouns and adjectives.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Forming and Using Possessive Nouns
Possessives show when a noun belongs to someone. It is often indicated with an apostrophe "s", but when words end in "s" only an apostrophe is added.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Possessive Case of Nouns: Rules and Examples
This page expains the rules for forming possessive nouns and provides examples.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Punctuation: Comma and Apostrophe: Introduction to the Possessive
Five self-correcting quiz questions over possessive pronouns.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Possessive Pronouns: Rules and Examples
An explanation with examples of possessive pronouns and how they are used in sentences.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Possessive Nouns
An explanation with examples of possessive nouns and their use of apostrophe.
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer's Apostrophes Showing Possession
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession and examples are provided. Note that links are provided at the bottom of the page for other specific uses of the apostrophe.
Other
Project l.a.: Possessive Nouns
Designed for elementary students, this Internet viewable slide show explains how to form possessives, then provides practice sentences. At the end are links to an online practice quiz and a printable worksheet.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Forms of Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives
Basic information and a follow-up exercise about possessive pronouns and adjectives. Color-coded examples are provided for easy understanding.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Advanced (Plural) Possession
Possessive plurals have a complicated relationship with apostrophes, but this exercise is here to help you understand it!
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: William Strunk on the Possessive Singular
William Strunk Jr.'s "Elements of Style" on the creation of possessive singular nouns. Provided by Bartleby.com
English Plus+
Plural Possessives
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession with plural nouns.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Bracken Business Communications: Plurals & Possessives[pdf]
This is the PDF article "Bracken Business Communications: Plurals and Possessives" expaining the rules and exceptions for forming plural and possessive nouns and providing examples of each.
Other
Possessives
This article contains rules about the correct way to incorporate possessives into college writing. A link with downloadable practice exercises is included at the end of the lesson.
Kent State University
Ohio Literacy Resource Center: Spelling: Practice Five: Possessives
In this 10-question practice, students write in the correct spelling to form possessives based on the information given. When finished, check answers with answer key. Java is required.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Family (La Familia): Possessives
A site for teaching Spanish-speaking English language learners, this section of Ingles Mundial focuses on possessives and the inverted word order used when asking questions. Possessive adjectives are introduced, and a number of excellent...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Possessive Pronoun
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a possessive pronoun in the context of a sentence.
Other
World Wide Words: Possessive Apostrophes
This site discusses the misuse of the apostrophe, such as using an apostrophe in a word which is a simple plural, now known as "greengrocer's apostrophe", the contraction it/it's, who's/whose, etc. A trend toward dropping the possessive...
Other
Grammar Monster: What Are Possessive Pronouns?
Get a better understanding of possessive pronouns with definitions, examples, lists, antecedents, and a five-question quiz.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Possessives and Irregular Plurals
This quiz asks students to type in the correct spelling of the plural or possessive as directed and to capitalize any proper nouns. Links are provided to a quiz list, tutorials for plurals and possessives, and the "Guide to Grammar and...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Possessive Adjectives
This site is a lesson on possessive adjectives.An adequate number of examples enhance the explanation. The student can test his mastery of the grammar principle with a short quiz at the end of the lesson.