What is the plural, singular possessive, and plural possessive of the word "wife"? What about the word "attorney"?
1 Answer
see below
Explanation:
1) wife
plural: wives
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the consonant 'k' is changed to 'v' in the plural, when 's' is added.
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other examples of this are knife
#rarr# knives and life#rarr# lives.
singular possessive: wife's
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an apostrophe and the letter s are used to indicate possession.
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these are added after the basic singular form 'wife'.
plural possessive: wives'
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the apostrophe is added after the basic plural form 'wives'.
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since the word 'wives' already ends in 's', there does not need to be another 's' after the apostrophe.
2) attorney
plural: attorneys
an 's' is added after the basic form of the word, to show plural number.
singular possessive: attorney's
an apostrophe and the letter 's' are added after the basic form of the singular.
this shows possession of a singular noun.
plural possessive: attorneys'
an apostrophe and the letter 's' are added after the basic form of the plural.
this shows possession of a plural noun.