See Remark, Lesson 21. Omit or, and note the effect.
1. Palestine or the Holy Land ——. 2. New York or the Empire State ——. 3. New Orleans or the Crescent City ——. 4. The five Books of Moses or the Pentateuch ——.
+Remember+ that ('s) and (') are the possessive signs—(') being used when s has been added to denote more than one, and ('s) in other cases.
+Direction.+—Copy the following, and note the use of the possessive sign:—
The lady's fan; the girl's bonnet; a dollar's worth; Burns's poems; Brown & Co.'s business; a day's work; men's clothing; children's toys; those girls' dresses; ladies' calls; three years' interest; five dollars' worth.
+Direction.+—Make possessive modifiers of the following words, and join them to appropriate nouns:—
Woman, women; mouse, mice; buffalo, buffaloes; fairy, fairies; hero, heroes; baby, babies; calf, calves.
+Caution.+—Do not use ('s) or (') with the pronouns its, his, ours, yours, hers, theirs.
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