Possessives

N ouns become possessive when they show that they own a thing or some things.
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 * //Example: The girl's bike is blue. (The bike belongs to the girl. In this sentence, girl is possessive and uses the ' to show this.)//**

People have trouble with possessives when they do not understand if a sentence is showing possession. People also get confused about where to put the apostrophe. **//Example://**
 * //The girl's bike is blue. (The bike belongs to one girl. The bike is blue.)//**
 * //The girls' bike is blue. (The bike belongs to more than one girl. The bike is blue.)//**

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(are not possessives even thought they look alike) Some people confuse contractions with possessives because they look similar:
 * CONTRACTIONS **
 * //Example: My parents __don't__ live in California. (The word don't is not a possessive. It is a contraction, -- a verb combined with another word __do+not__ -- and we have removed one or more letters from some or all of the words in the contraction.)//**

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