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EXERCISE 31: Point to or touch something in the classroom that belongs to someone and ask
a question with whose.
Example: (Student A points to or touches a grammar book.)
STUDENT A: Whose book is this?
STUDENT B: It's mine. I Mine. / It's my book.
STUDENT A: Whose book is that?
STUDENT B: It's PO'S. / PO'S. / It's PO'S book.
(a) I'm happy. (INCORRECT: I'm happy.)
She's happy.
We're happy.
(b) Tom's happy. I ..
: .A
!
(c) That's my notebook.
(d) Thsre's a book on the table.
There're some books on the tab1
(e) What's this?
Where's Anna?
( f) Who's that? -r It's Mike
Wkose is that? -r It's M
(h) Tina isn't here.
( i ) Tom's hair is brown.
( j ) My parents' house is white.
(k) This pen belongs to Ann. It is hers.
( 1 ) INCORRECT: It is her's.
(m) It's sunny today.
(n) I'm s~dying about India. I'm
interested in its history.
(0) INCORRECT: I'm intsrested in it's histoy.
USES OF THE APOSTROPHE
With contractions of pronouns and am, is, and are.
See Chaa 1-4.
With contractions of nouns and is.
In (b), Tom's = Tom is. *
With the contraction of t/aat and is.
* With the contractions of there and islare.
With contractions of some question words and is.
COMPARB
In (0: Who's = who is.
In (g): Whose = a question word that asks about
possession. It has NO apostrophe.
With negative contractions: h't, aren't, wasn't,
weren't, doeant, don't, won't, can't.
With possessive nouns, as in (i) and (j). See Charts 8-7
and 8-8.
Apostrophes are NOT used with possessive pronouns. In
(1): hers with an apostrophe (her's) is NEVER correct.
COMPARE: In (m): it's = it is.
In (n): its = a possessive adjective: its histoy = India's
histoy. A possessive adjective has NO apostrophe.
*Nouns are regularly contracted with i. in spoken English. In written English, contractions of a noun and i. (e.g., Tom's
happy) are found in infod English (for example, in a letter to a friend), but not in formal English (for exmple, an
academic paper). In general, verb contractions (I'm, you're, isn't, there's, arc.) are found in informal English, but are not used
in very formal English.