possessive

IPA: pʌzˈɛsɪv

Examples of "possessive" in Sentences

To make the word possessive, you add an apostrophe and an "s" (rope's).
Oh, wait…what’s that marginalization term possessive individualists use…statist?
For Kilpatrick, the friend of … part of the phrase establishes possession, and thus the ‘s possessive is redundant.
As the possessive is the only case of nouns that has a distinctive inflection, it is only with this case that mistakes can occur in construction.
Even if the “ugly spirits,” as he called the possessive forces, could not be exorcised, they could be kept under control, he discovered, through the process of writing about them.
This is a good point at which to explain possessive plurals, as we have already added an “s”, we can now simply add an apostrophe; “the scrotes’ lawyer” (the lawyer for several scrotes).
In his book, Halpern deals with one such case of Barzun's being criticized by Pinker, in which Pinker says that Barzun "earned an 'F'" because he called the possessive use of a noun an adjective.
If you used the shortened form, you'd just say "in-laws' house", but since you're using the full form, it's correct to pluralise the noun and not the modifier ('parents' rather than 'in law'), and then make the entire term possessive, because it's acting as a noun cluster. ("parents-in-law's")