A possessive is a word that shows possession or ownership of something. A possessive can be a noun, pronoun or adjective. Nouns are usually made possessive by adding an apostrophe and an ‘s ...

And so we run up against one of the more badly misnamed things in English grammar: the possessive. Yes, yes, it's true, we do use it to indicate possession: John's chair, Mary's house, ...

A singular noun is a noun referring to just one person or thing, for example 'cat'. When you want to show that something belongs to that person or thing, you add a possessive apostrophe and an 's ...