A Rewrite the phrases in red using apostrophes.
1. The house of Kapil got freshly painted.
2. The colour of that parrot is green.
3. Stuti is a friend of Mehek.
4. Pranay is a relative of the school librarian.
5. The garden owned by Saket is beautiful.
6. Sachin is the son of my friend.
7. The shirt worn by Vishant is green in colour.
8. Koyel will not go to the party held by her friends.
Answers
Rewriting the given sentence with appropriate usage of apostrophes will be as follows:-
1. Kapil's house got freshly painted.
(the house of Kapil can be written as Kapil's)
2. The parrot's colours is green.
(the colour of the parrot can be written as parrot's)
3. Mehek's friend is Stuti.
(a friend of Mehek can be written as Mehek's)
4. The school librarian's relative is Pranay.
(relative of school librarian can be school librarian's)
5. Saket's garden is beautiful.
(owned by Saket is written as Saket's)
6. Sachin is my friend's son.
(son of my friend as my friend's son)
7. Vishant's shirt's colour is green.
(shirt worn by Vishant as Vishant's, and shirt is green in colour as shirt's colour is green)
8. Hotel will not go to her friends' party.
(party held by her friends as friends' party.)
Answer:
A Rewrite the phrases in using apostrophes.
- The apostrophe (') together with an 's' is added to a noun to show possession, that is, to show that something belongs to some person or living thing.
- Example: Children's books, here the reason is that 'children' is the plural form of 'child', and so we simply add an apostrophe + s at the end.
1. The house of Kapil got freshly painted.
- Kapil's house got freshly painted.
2. The colour of that parrot is green.
- That parrot's colour is green.
3. Stuti is a friend of Mehek.
- Mehek's friend is Sruti.
4. Pranay is a relative of the school librarian.
- School librarian's relative is Pranay.
5. The garden owned by Saket is beautiful.
- Saket's garden is beautiful.
6. Sachin is the son of my friend.
- Sachin is my friend's son.
7. The shirt worn by Vishant is green in colour.
- Vishant's shirt is green in color.
8. Koyel will not go to the party held by her friends.
- Friends' party.