Question

What is the possessive plural of ‘grass’?

Answer 1

Hint: The possessive form of any noun can be formed by adding an apostrophe and ‘s’. The plural of noun means ‘multiple copies’ of that noun. For any regular noun that ends with –ss, if we add –es we can form its plural.

Complete answer:
A noun is a word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea. In a sentence, nouns can play the role of subject, direct object, indirect object, subject complement, object complement, appositive, or adjective. The noun given to us is ‘grass’.

In order to get a plural possessive form of any noun, we follow two steps;
- Convert the given noun into its plural form
- Make the plural form possessive by adding an apostrophe after ‘s’; since plural forms always end in ‘s’.
Note that the noun ‘grass’ cannot be considered as a countable noun, since it is a mass noun. In simple words, we cannot find the plural for the noun ‘grass’.
But we do know that in order to denote different types of grass or different kinds of grass we write it as ‘types of grasses’. So using this term, we are able to find a possessive plural form for ‘grass’.
So by the given guidelines;
- Consider that the plural of the noun grass is grasses.
- Now the possessive for the plural form will be: grasses’.

Using it in an example would look like this;
The grasses’ revenues are determined by their seasonal supply.

Therefore the plural possessive form of the given noun grass is: grasses’.

Note: Nouns in general are classified according to its ability to be counted. This classification is ‘countable nouns’ and ‘uncountable nouns’. We spoke about uncountable nouns so we will see what countable nouns are; any noun that can be counted is a countable noun, so in English grammar, only they can be converted into a plural form. Examples are: dog, tree, brush, etc.