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词组 's
释义 's

◊ used to form possessives

When a singular noun refers to a person or animal, you form the possessive by adding 's.
...Ralph's voice.
...the President's conduct.
...the princess's aides.
...the horse's eyes.

When a plural noun ends in 's', you form the possessive by adding an apostrophe (').
...my colleagues' offices.
...their parents' activities.

When a plural noun does not end in 's', you form the possessive by adding 's.
...women's rights.
...children's games.

When a name ends in 's', you usually form the possessive by adding 's.
...Charles's Christmas present.
...Mrs Jones's dressing-table.

In formal writing, the possessive of a name ending in 's' is sometimes formed by adding an apostrophe (').
...a statue of Prince Charles' grandfather King George VI.

You do not usually add 's to nouns that refer to things. For example, you do not say 'the building's front'; you say 'the front of the building'. Similarly, you do not say 'my bicycle's bell'; you say 'the bell on my bicycle'.
...the bottom of the hill.
...the end of August.


◊ pronouns

You can add 's to the following pronouns:
another, anybody, anyone, everybody, everyone , nobody, no-one, one, other, somebody, someone

...one's self-esteem.
...the idea that one person's mind is accessible to another's.
One side gives in too easily and accepts the other's demands.

The possessive forms of other pronouns are called possessive determiners. For more information about these, see entry at ↑ Possessive determiners.


◊ other uses of possessives

In British English, you can add 's to a person's name to refer to the house where they live. For example, 'I met him at Gwyneth's' means 'I met him at Gwyneth's house'.
I'll just nip round to Winnie's and see if she's got any sugar.

British speakers also use words ending in 's to refer to shops. For example, they talk about a 'chemist's', a 'tobacconist's', or a 'greengrocer's'.
I found her buying bottles of vitamin tablets at the chemist's.
I went over the cobbled road to the grocer's.

You can use 'be' and a short noun group ending in 's to say who something belongs to. For example, if someone says 'Whose is this coat?', you might say 'It's my mother's'.
One of the cars was his wife's.

You do not use this construction in formal writing. Instead you use belong to. You also use belong to when you are using several words to refer to someone. For example, you say 'It belongs to the man next door'. You do not say 'It is the man next door's'.
The painting belongs to a man living in Norfolk.


◊ other uses of 's

Apart from its use in possessives, 's has three other uses:

It is used as a shortened form of 'is', especially after pronouns.
He's a novelist.
It's fantastic.
There's no hurry.

It is used as a shortened form of 'has' when 'has' is an auxiliary verb.
He's got a problem.
She's gone home.

It is used as a shortened form of 'us' after 'let'.
Let's go outside.

For more information about this use, see entry at ↑ let's - let us.
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