Huck made a 50 (!!!!!!) on his singular and plural possessive noun test in 3rd grade grammar. I simply can't have my son going around writing "nacho's" ! Remember in The Color Purple when Nettie had everything in the house labeled so that Celie could learn to read? S-K-Y, E-G-G etc...?
Thus has been life at Nestlewood. We have added apostrophes to everything in the world! I'm a tricky teacher. I've thrown irregular nouns at him (child to children, woman to women, sheep to sheep) and told him to make it plural, and then to "make those sheep own that grass! How would you write that?"
He was a wreck this morning. "What if I make another bad grade? Will you kill me?" My answer for that one is "I will only kill you for bad grades if you make them because you don't give a crap. You'll do fine. You get this, come on, give me a singular possessive." He said " Um...the cat's toenails are sharp." Good, so I tell him to give me a plural possessive "Well...the trees' leaves are colorful."
I'll bet he makes 100.
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Well, how'd he do? I have to laugh when I see grammar don'ts. Ex: Yard Sell or Free Kitten's. I always think "Free kitten's what? Mittens? Used catnip??"
He made 100 :-)
Ok, you lost me at "make the sheep own the grass". lol.
I'm sure he'll do wonderful. He seemed to have it down pat.
IOW, I was telling him to make the word sheep become plural possessive to the grass :-)
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