The possessive case of nouns

Singular number

Plural number

Proper Nouns

Tim’s dog, Alice’s cat, James’s mother,

St. Paul’s, St. Mary’s, Mr. Baker’s house

the Bakers’ house

Animate Nouns

a girl’s hat, the boy’s dog, a lady’s handbag,

a man’s suit, a child’s toy, a cat’s tail

a girls’ school, the boys’ dogs, a ladies’ room,

men’s suits, children’s books, cats’ tails

Inanimate Nouns

a minute’s walk, a day’s work, a week’s stay, today’s conference, yesterday’s paper, the company’s office,

the government’s proposal, my family’s welfare

a five minutes’ walk, a three days’ trip, a few weeks’ stay,

the companies’ offices, the governments’ proposals,

my families’ welfare

Masculine

Feminine

Neuter

a nice little boy

my favourite actor

two old Englishmen

a nice little girl

my favourite actress

two old Englishwomen

a nice little toy

my favourite play

two old Englishtowns

The king has a dog.

The boy left.

The queen has a cat.

The girl left.

The table has four legs.

The train left.

Nouns Determiners

Countable Nouns

Uncountable Nouns

Singular number

Plural number

The Indefinite Article

a boy, an apple

The Definite Article

the boy

the boys

the tea

The Possessive Pronoun

my apple

my apples

my tea

The Demonstrative Pronoun

this boy, that apple

these boys, those apples

this tea, that money

Question Words

What boy?

Which apple?

Whose book?

What boys?

Which apples?

Whose books?

What tea?

Which money?

Whose money?

The Quantifiers

some boys, any boys

many boys, few boys

a few boys, more boys

most boys, a lot of boys

some tea, any tea

much tea, little tea

a little tea, more tea

most tea, a lot of tea

Subject

The boy likes jam. Water is a liquid.

Object

The boy likes jam. He told us a story.

Predicative

Water is a liquid. We are students. They were good friends.

Attribute

There is a metal door in the stone wall. She is Tim’s sister.

Adverbial modifier

There is a large tree in front of the house.