Cover of the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - Real friends? for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the description of Miguel. Underline six examples of apostrophe 's.
  2. Work in pairs. Which 's means has, is or possessive 's?
  3. Read the text. Put in seven missing apostrophes (').

Answer

a)

Miguel's an online friend of mine. We're friends because we both like photography. Miguel's photos are fantastic. He's got a great camera. I don't know a lot about his family, but I know he lives in Bogotá and he's got three children. His wife's name's Angelica.

b)

has

  • He's got a great camera
  • he's got three children

is

  • Miguel's an online friend
  • name's Angelica

possessive 's

  • Miguel's photos
  • His wife's

c)

My best friend's name's Leo. He's got a lovely wife, Klara, and they both work as actors in films and on television programmes. They live in an apartment in Moscow and have two children, Vera and Nikolay. Vera's at school and she lives with them. Nikolay, Vera's brother, is single and he lives and works in St Petersburg. He's got a small apartment there. Leo likes talking, but Klara's a quiet person, and very kind.