Possessive adjectives show who something or someone belongs to. Learn about possessive adjectives with BBC Bitesize French. For students between the ages of 14 and 16.

But the genitive was always marked directly on the noun (and adjectives, definite articles, et cetera), whereas our modern "possessive" can attach to a whole phrase: We don't say "the lady's you ...

Veterans Day. Sometimes a word can be either possessive or an adjective, which is why farmers’ market and farmers market are both correct.

But if you wanted to make that possessive, where would you put the apostrophe? You might guess that because the first word takes the plural S, that’s where your possessive apostrophe should go.

Even the latest edition of the “Chicago Manual of Style” (which reversed its previous stand and now favors an apostrophe in many regular attributive adjectives) allows that “the line between a ...

The society fought heroically for appropriate apostrophes, setting out the three rules of use; first, to denote missing letters; second, to indicate possession except in the case of possessive ...

Wasn’t that just as wrong, the student asked, and shouldn’t it be “teachers’ union”? Not necessarily. Sometimes, a noun appears before another noun in a way that looks as if it’s a possessive but ...