Lesson 409

Mechanics - Punctuation - Apostrophes

Use the apostrophe with expressions of time, space, and amount.

Example:
He bought a dollar's worth of ice cream.

 
 
 

Instructions: Supply the apostrophes to make the possessivesPossessives show whose something is. in the following sentences.

1. You are to be here in two hours time.

2. Can you spare a moments time to help me?

3. That store sells a quarters worth of candy for a dime.

4. The child had three pennies worth of candy in his sack.

5. To finish this job will take four days work.