English grammar A2 · Lesson 4 of 4
Possessives and capital letters
Add after one owner: . After a plural ending in s, add only the apostrophe: . Irregular plurals take : .
A plain plural never takes an apostrophe: , not two apple's.
English capitalizes more than French: days, months, languages and nationalities, , , , , and always the word . Seasons take none: .
Examples
- My brother's car is red.
- The students' results are ready.
- The children's room is upstairs.
- We met on Monday in June.
- I speak English and Arabic.