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ones, one’s
Ones is the plural of ‘one’.
After six months at sea, he longed to return to his family and loved ones.
One’s is either the genitive (showing possession or ownership): to do one’s best,
or the contracted form of ‘one is’ or ‘one has’.
We have three balloons: one’s blue, one’s red, and one’s got a hole in it.

Active and passive sentences

There are two basic kinds of sentence: active sentences and passive sentences.
You can use the passive if you don’t focus on who does something. Look at the
difference:
Dad cleans the car once a week. = Active
(I know that Dad cleans the car once a week.)
The car is cleaned once a week. = Passive
(I don’t know who cleans the car and this detail isn’t important to me.)

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ones, one’s
Ones is the plural of ‘one’.
After six months at sea, he longed to return to his family and loved ones.
One’s is either the genitive (showing possession or ownership): to do one’s best,
or the contracted form of ‘one is’ or ‘one has’.
We have three balloons: one’s blue, one’s red, and one’s got a hole in it.

Active and passive sentences

There are two basic kinds of sentence: active sentences and passive sentences.
You can use the passive if you don’t focus on who does something. Look at the
difference:
Dad cleans the car once a week. = Active
(I know that Dad cleans the car once a week.)
The car is cleaned once a week. = Passive
(I don’t know who cleans the car and this detail isn’t important to me.)

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