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• Subtopic: Possessive 's We use 's to indicate possession. For example, "a student's project." When there is more than one person named, we put 's after the last person, as in "Emma and Maribel's teacher." When a noun is plural and ends with an s, we just add an apostrophe ('). For instance, "our teachers' projects." • Subtopic: Possessive Pronouns Singular possessive pronouns include mine, yours, his/hers/its. Plural possessive pronouns are ours, yours, theirs. We use possessive pronouns when we do not repeat the noun. For example, "My name is Alex and hers is Aline," "I show my plan and they show theirs," and "This schoolbag is new. Mine is old." • Subtopic: Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns To make regular plural nouns, we add -s: book → books, phone → phones, girl → girls, boy → boys. Some nouns end in consonant + y, and the plural form ends in -ies: country → countries, family → families, baby → babies, story → stories. Some nouns have irregular plural forms: child → children, person → people, man → men, woman → women. • Subtopic: Question Words We use "how many" to ask about quantities (countable) and "how much" to ask about prices and quantities (uncountables). "Wha...