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Exercise 26.3 Change each word in parentheses into the correct posses-sive form by adding an apostrophe or an apostrophe plus s. A word may require a plural form before you change it to a possessive.

Example: The two (woman) women*s cars blocked the driveway.

1.    (Mr. Cass)-contribution to the primaries brought praise from

the (govemor)-reelection committee.

2.    The (assistant editor) - idea was to run three (student)

_biographies in each issue.

3.    The (Lady)-Auxiliarv League drew hundreds to its Fourth of

J uly pienie; (everyone)-praise meant that the tradition would

continue next year.

4.    In (Dickens)-_r novel Great Expeclations, (Pip)__

adventures hołd every (reader)_attention.

Lxercise 26.4 Change the structures that show ownership to possessive forms that use apostrophes.

Example: The announcement of the Secretary of State The Secretary of State’s announcement

1.    the car of Kim and Thai

2.    a business belonging to my brother-in-Iaw

3.    the houses of Mr. Garcia and Mr. Youngblood

4.    the smile of Doris

5.    the value of three dollars

6.    a term of six months

E.\ercise 26.5 Correct any words in italics either by removing incorrectly

uscd apostrophes or by adding apostrophes where they belong. Some words

are correct and reąuire no change.

1.    Iris cat lost ils way, but one neighbors boys helped her find it.

2.    There waśni enough attention placed on writing skills’ in college English curricula in the 60s.

3.    In the word occurrence, the two cs and two rs confuse many grade school students’.

4.    If the ideas’ are hers’, its wise to give her credit for them.

5.    Many childrens parenis' bought those doils before the cotnpanies recalled them at the governments request.