EXERCISE 31: Point to or touch something in the classroom that belongs to someone and ask

a question with whose.

Example: (Student A points to or touches a grammar book.)
STUDENT A: Whose book is this?
STUDENT B: It's mine. I Mine. / It's my book.
STUDENT A: Whose book is that?
STUDENT B: It's PO'S./ PO'S./ It's PO'Sbook.

( a ) I'm happy. (INCORRECT:

I ' m happy.) USES OF THE APOSTROPHE
She's happy. With contractions of pronouns and am, is, and are.
We're happy. See Chaa 1-4.
( b ) Tom's happy. :
.. I With contractions of nouns and is.
In (b), Tom's = Tom is. *
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( c ) That's my notebook. With the contraction of t/aat and is.
( d ) Thsre's a book on the table. * With the contractions of there and islare.
There're some books on the tab1
( e ) What's this? With contractions of some question words and is.
Where's Anna?
( f ) Who's that? -r It's Mike COMPARB
Wkose is that? -r It's M In (0: Who's = who is.
In (g): Whose = a question word that asks about
possession. It has NO apostrophe.

( h ) Tina isn't here. With negative contractions: h ' t , aren't, wasn't,

weren't, doeant,don't, won't, can't.

( i ) Tom's hair is brown. With possessive nouns, as in (i) and (j). See Charts 8-7
( j ) My parents' house is white. and 8-8.
( k ) This pen belongs to Ann. It is hers. Apostrophes are NOT used with possessive pronouns. In
( 1) INCORRECT: It is her's. (1): hers with an apostrophe (her's) is NEVER correct.

(m) It's sunny today. COMPARE: In (m): it's = it is.

( n ) I'm s ~ d y i n g
about India. I'm In (n): its = a possessive adjective: its histoy = India's
interested in its history. histoy. A possessive adjective has NO apostrophe.
(0) INCORRECT: I'm intsrested in it's histoy.

*Nouns are regularly contracted with i. in spoken English. In written English, contractions of a noun and i. (e.g., Tom's
happy) are found in i n f o d English (for example, in a letter to a friend), but not in formal English (for exmple, an
academic paper). In general, verb contractions (I'm, you're, isn't, there's, arc.) are found in informal English, but are not used
in very formal English.