Tuesday, September 25, 2018

A Short Story


A Wise Old Owl 

There was an old owl that lived in an oak. Everyday he saw incidents happening around him. 

Yesterday he saw a boy helping an old man to carry a heavy basket. 



Today he saw a girl shouting at her mother. The more he saw the less he spoke. 


As he spoke less, he heard more. He heard people talking and telling stories. He heard a woman saying that an elephant jumped over a fence. He also heard a man saying that he had never made a mistake. 


The old owl had seen and heard about what happened to people. Some became better and some became worse. But the old owl had become wiser each and every day. 
Moral of the story : 


You should be observant, talk less but listen more. This will make you a wise person. 


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Monday, September 24, 2018

The possessive case form. Some examples

1.  's is used with singular nouns and plural nouns not ending in -s

      The man's job - men's perfume - the woman's car - women's handbags - 
      a child's voice - the children's room - the people's choice - the boy's house

2. A simple apostrophe (') is used with plural nouns ending in -s
       
      The girls' money - the students' books  The boys' schoolbag

3. Note the difference:

     Peter and Tom's house = Peter and Tom own the same house.
     Peter's and Tom's house = Peter and Tom own different houses

4. With compound nouns or names consisting of several words,  the last word takes the 's
     
      Her sister-in-law's friend - My step-father's name -
      Henry the Eighth's wives - The Prince of Wales's guard

5. Names ending in s can take 's or the apostrophe alone (')
    James's house /[...sɪz]        James' house 

6. In time expressions

     a week's holiday - today's newspaper . tomorrow's land
     
                                  Adapted from A Practical English Grammar A.J Thomson, A.V. Martinet     Oxford

Punctuation: Using apostrophes to show singular & plural possession (KS2)