(It’s not correct to say “It was the Smith’s party” because the party was by the whole family, not just one person, and also the definite article isn’t used with surnames in the singular).Īnother option is to use the word ‘family’, and say It was the Smith family’s party. “The Smith family” = “The Smiths”, and to make it possessive, we add an apostrophe after ‘s’ (not before it, because it already ends in ‘s’). In that question, it says The party was organised by the Smith family. You can add an ‘s’ to a surname, to mean ‘all the people in that family’. Yes, you can say This book is my brother's :) 'Smiths' is less common, but it does exist.įor Q2, both options again are grammatically correct, but the question is: how many neighbours own this car? The answers mean the car belongs to (a) one neighbour, or (b) more than one neighbour. If it is 'Mr Smith s', option b is correct. 'Smith' is a very common surname. So, for your Q1, the important question is: what is the man's name? If it is 'Mr Smith', option a is correct.
the car's wheels (= the wheels of the car).Tim's books (= the books that belong to Tim).
(NOT I am a friend of Susan.) Possessives: pronouns 2īook traversal links for Possessives: pronouns We can use possessive pronouns and nouns after of. We can use a possessive pronoun instead of a full noun phrase to avoid repeating words: (NOT Is that car your's/her's/our's/their's?) Possessive pronouns do not have an apostrophe:
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