Question

What is the singular possessive case?

Answer 1

Hint: The term possessive refers to or describes the instance of nouns and pronouns that demonstrate possession. Possession, on the other hand, is the state of possessing or holding something, or anything that is owned as assets by another. When a singular form of a noun is considered it is basically the nouns which are one in quantity (usually do not end in ‘s’). And there are some nouns which end in an ‘s’ for singular form, they will be treated as an exception.

Complete answer:
A singular noun or pronoun (term utilized in place of a person or object) in the singular possessive case means that a particular 'something' belongs to such a person or entity.
Ownership, possession, root, or meaning are all indicated by possessive case nouns.
An apostrophe and an 's' are united to make a possessive case noun.
In brief when singular form of a noun is considered it is basically the nouns which are one in quantity (usually do not end in ‘s’). And there are some nouns which end in an ‘s’ for singular form, they will be treated as an exception.

Now we move on to forming the structure of a singular possessive case.
In general we know that we indicate possession by apostrophe and ‘s’ like shown here (‘s).
Since we know that most nouns that are in singular form do not have an ‘s’ in the end so let us keep that as a general basis for forming categories;

Category ‘singular noun without ‘s’ ending’: here we know that most nouns follow this pattern so we just need to make it possessive without making any changes to the base noun. To that base just add apostrophe and an ‘s’. Symbolically it can be expressed in this way (‘s).
Example: if we take any noun in singular form like, ‘car’, then its possessive form would be ‘car’s’.
In a sentence; This is my car.
(Also written this way in possessive form) I am the car’s owner.

Category ‘singular noun with ‘s’ ending’: here we know that there are few exception or irregular nouns that follow this pattern. So here again we just need to make it possessive without making any changes to the base noun. But here the possessive form would be to just append an apostrophe to the end of the base noun. Symbolically it can be expressed in this way (s‘).
Example: if we take any noun in singular form that ends in ‘s’ like, ‘boss’, then its possessive form would be (boss’).
In a sentence; My boss owns this house.
(Also written this way in possessive form) This house is my boss’.

Therefore there are two ways of making singular possessive form that is either by adding apostrophe and s (‘s) or by just adding apostrophe (s’) in exceptional cases.


Note:
I) Possessive pronouns as well as possessive adjectives are indeed the forms of pronouns that signify possession. The terms used for this purpose are: mine, its, hers, his, theirs, yours and ours.
II) At the same time a possessive adjective is one that precedes a noun to indicate that it belongs to a certain someone or particularly something.
III) The main terms used here are: my, her, his, its, their, our and your.
IV) Take care that in constructing a possessive form, for pronouns they need not utilize an apostrophe to indicate possession.