AC9E5LA09 Year 5 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and apostrophes where there is multiple possession

Elaborations

• 1 learning that in Standard Australian English, regular plural nouns ending in “s” form the possessive by adding just the apostrophe; for example, “the students' classroom”
• 2 learning that in Standard Australian English for proper nouns, the regular possessive form is always possible but a variant form without the second “s” is sometimes found; for example, “James’s house” or “James’ house”
• 3 learning that when there is more than one owner, the apostrophe is usually used for the last owner in the list; for example, “the cat and kitten’s bowls”
• 4 using commas to signal a prepositional phrase; for example, “On Saturday, before it rained we went to the beach.”

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