A brief presentation on coordinate nouns, possessive pronouns, and indefinite pronouns.

1. Possessive Case
Coordinate Nouns, Possessive Pronouns, Indefinite Pronouns

2. Coordinate Nouns
There are two types of coordinate nouns:
joint possession and individual possession.

3. Coordinate Nouns
Joint Possession
I heard Hannah and Eric’s duet at karaoke.
Hannah
Duet
Eric

4. Coordinate Nouns
Individual Possession
Catherine’s and Luke’s songs are perfect for
their voices.
Catherine
Luke
Song
Song

5. Possessive Pronouns
Possessive pronouns are used to show
possession and do not require apostrophes.

6. his
her
our
your
my
their
whose
its

7. Possessive Pronouns
Whose vs. Who’s
Whose
Who’s
The possessive
form of who.
The contraction of
who is or who has.
The student
whose car was
towed away was
angry.
Do you know
who’s giving a
presentation
today?

8. Possessive Pronouns
Its vs. It’s
Its
It’s
The possessive
form of it.
The contraction of
it is.
The sales
department
must meet its
quota.
We’re happy
because it’s
almost spring
break.

9. Indefinite Pronouns
Some indefinite pronouns form the possessive
case with the preposition of or by using ‘s.

10. Indefinite Pronouns
With the preposition of
all
any
each
most
few
none
Rachel gave me the order form for Girl Scout
cookies and told me to order a box of each.
some

11. Indefinite Pronouns
Using ‘s
Unfortunately, someone’s box of Girl Scout
cookies was left unattended.
anyone
everyone
someone
no one