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Possessive Lynne's Lynne's My Mine Your Yours His His Her Hers Its Its Our Ours Their Theirs Whose Whose For example:- This is  Lynne's  web site. It's  my  website! It's  mine ! It's not  Zozanga's  web site. It's not  his  website! It's not  his ! Have you seen  her  book?   It's  her  book. It's  hers . Genitive Case You should still use the "of" form of the possessive / genitive case when talking about things that belong to other things. For example:- The door  of the  car.  You can also say, "the car door". The top speed  of the  car is 1000 km/hr.  You might also hear, "the car's top speed" in advertising, because they like to humanise things. The content  of the  website.  You can also say, "the website content", or "the website's content". Go to the top  of the  page. You may still hear someone say something like "The father  of the  br...

T here are different ways to show ownership of something. To show possession you can use nouns to modify other nouns. (For purposes of clarity, we distinguish between the genitive case and the possessive case here.) The good news is that the genitive case "of" is used less and less in English today. Hooray! Possessive Case The possessive case is used to show ownership. The possessive pattern or mark ('s) is generally used when indicating a relation of ownership or association with a person, rather than a thing. (Linguistically speaking it is a form of genitive case.) Singular nouns take -'s. For example:- Bob's presentation. Lynne's web site kept growing larger and larger. There are, as ever, exceptions to this rule. When a group of people is involved or animals. For example:- The members' forum.  The dogs' tails. Companies are often treated like people. For example:- Coca Cola 's  latest advertising campaign. Irregular plural nouns that don't ...

First you need to know what an object is. If the subject of a sentence is doing something to someone, that someone or something becomes the object of the sentence. Now it might help you if you know what the term "case" means. It's the grammatical function of a noun or pronoun, thankfully almost extinct in the English language, but we haven't buried it yet. A noun or pronoun is in the objective case when it is used as a direct object, an indirect object, or an object. A noun which is directly affected by the action of a verb is put into the objective case. In English we call this noun the "direct object" which is a little more descriptive of its function. It's the direct object of some action. Robert fixed  the car . In the example above, the "car" is in the objective case because it's the direct object of Robert's action of fixing. Pronouns are inflected to show the objective case . PERSONAL PRONOUN Objective/Accusative Referring to the...