20893 ACE Language (Yr 5) Possessives pronouns and determiners
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Pronoun clues<br />
Resource sheet<br />
The position of the possessive apostrophe indicates if there is one or many owners.<br />
Pronoun clues in the sentence can also indicate the number of owners.<br />
The teacher was happy with the students’ progress <strong>and</strong> rewarded them well.<br />
Underst<strong>and</strong> how the grammatical category of possessives is signalled through apostrophes <strong>and</strong> how to use apostrophes with common <strong>and</strong> proper nouns (<strong>ACE</strong>LA1506)<br />
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The teacher was happy with the progress of more than<br />
one student <strong>and</strong> rewarded them very well.<br />
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The teacher was happy with the student’s progress <strong>and</strong> rewarded him well.<br />
The teacher was happy with the progress of one student <strong>and</strong> rewarded him very well.<br />
The farmer cleaned the horse’s stable <strong>and</strong> gave it fresh hay to eat.<br />
The farmer cleaned the stable of one horse <strong>and</strong> gave it fresh hay to eat.<br />
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The farmer cleaned the horses’ stable <strong>and</strong> gave them fresh hay to eat.<br />
The farmer cleaned the stable of more than one horse <strong>and</strong> gave them fresh hay to eat.<br />
The swimmers’ coach was delighted when they won the relay race.<br />
The coach of more than one swimmer was delighted when they won the relay race.<br />
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The swimmer’s coach was delighted when she won the relay race.<br />
The coach of one swimmer was delighted when she won the relay race.<br />
R.I.C. Publications ® www.ricpublications.com.au Australian Curriculum English – <strong>Language</strong>: Text structure <strong>and</strong> organisation (Year 5)<br />
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