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How can one teach apostrophes effectively?

You find the confusion in situations like this e.g. The boys' are in their room.The apostrophe is unnecessarily placed.How then does one go about correcting this anomaly?

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Question added by Nicholas Poshayi , Teacher/Librarian/Academic Teacher , Brooke Bond School
Date Posted: 2014/04/13
Ahmed Gendy
by Ahmed Gendy , English Senior Inspector , Ministry of Education (MoE)

First I must know the level but I tell you what can I do for ESL classes

I write on the board

Boy toy       boys toys         children home         frogs legs             a door key           Cairo population

  two weeks vacation

  and then ask students to insert apostrophs to differentiate between singular , plural , and items that don't take apostroph . 

علي حسيب صديق الحيالي
by علي حسيب صديق الحيالي , معلم , مدرسة الماس الاهلية

you only give them all types of adding "s" and tell them which on of them need apostrophe and they diiferentiate between them

ashraf taha
by ashraf taha , مدرس - teacher , مراكز تعليمية - Educational centers

Must first learn well

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