Everybody.
So in this lesson we're going to tackle possesses that possessions are pretty easy.
But the college will be testing this particular skill a lot recently.
So let's take a look first of all make sure that you understand what positions are.
So take a look at the screen possessive adjectives or words like my your His IT'S OUR your and their.
These are the pronoun that is.
And you can see it broken down into singular and plural and first person second person third person.
If you're not sure that means first person includes the speaker.
So I say my cup where I could say the plural are Cup.
Second person is when I am addressing you and I say this is your cup.
So interestingly for second person the plural and singular are exactly the same.
If it's one person it's your cup.
There's a whole gang of you.
It's still your cup.
Finally third person is not me not you.
Other people.
So it's not the speaker it's not the listener but it's some other group other than the people engaged
in the conversation.
So him or his cup her cup their cup its cup.
OK.
So that's what the different perspectives get.
So it's fairly straightforward and as English speakers I think most of you have absolutely no problem
with this.
But I will mention that the College Board likes to really test you on the difference between these two.
It's and there and again you're not going to make this mistake normally.
Right.
It's so easy.
But just be patient.
When you see both is is an added choice.
Make sure that it's a singular thing or a plural thing that's being described.
Similarly we have possessive pronouns.
Mine yours his hers it's ours.
Yours is.
Again the main trick here is just make sure you distinguish between singular and plural between.
It's.
And there's.
Now here are the four common mistakes that the college board tries to catch you on.
First of all there's it's is it's Which ones right.
If I want to say this is its engine I'm talking about my car my car's engine it's engine.
The correct answer of course is the right side.
It's it with an apostrophe s means it is.
So it's a kind of important one because usually when we talk about possessives for for things we use
the apostrophe but for it's it's the opposite really important to remember that row.
Another common trap is the difference between there and there.
Of course the possessive is this one here on the right as we all know they're just meditate over there
where he's over there.
It's a place I would relate to place not position we all know we learned this in elementary school.
We all know how to do it for a person's name right.
Jonathan Jones clearly you use the apostrophe.
Finally we have parents.
When you have a word that has an S on the end already when it's a plural you just add an apostrophe
to the end.
You don't say parents apostrophe again and that parent is now there is a case when you will use the
second one right here.
Parent apostrophe s instead of parents apostrophe.
Can you guess what that will mean that would be what parent usually means no.
Both mom and dad right.
What are you referring to.
One parent.
So if I was talking about my mom and dad and said you know my my parents have a car.
It's my parent's car.
They own a car.
I would use Parents apostrophe because it's both a car.
If however I'm just talking about my mom and said It's my mum's car I get to do it's my parent's car.
It's my sister's car is my parents car but I only have a mum so it's my mum's car so it's my senior
parent at that point so my parent seeing your apostrophe S..
So it's a bit of a tricky one to really think about it is a possessive describing a single person the
parent or both parents.
If you keep that in mind should be good to go.