Questão 9 Comentada - Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Sul-rio-grandense - Rio Grande do Sul (IF Sul Rio-Grandense) - Professor EBTT Área 05: Letras Inglês - IF Sul Rio-Grandense (2025)

The way to form possessives in English is to add ‘s to regular singular nouns and noncount nouns and irregular plural nouns not ending in s or to add an apostrophe after the s ending of regular plural nouns and after singular/noncount nouns ending in the sound /s/ to form ‘s.
Celse-Murcia (2013) affirms that, besides possession, the genitive form can indicate:

  • A amount, relationship, part to whole, description.
  • B description, amount, relationship, part to whole, origin.
  • C origin, amount, relationship, part to whole.
  • D relationship, description, part to whole, origin.