Pissesive case thepossessivecase.exercise 1.paraphrase the following using the possessive case.example: the son of our manager –our manager’s sonthe songs of the children –the children’s songsthe new club of the workers –the workers’ new club 1) the house of mr. smith; 2) the works of rembrandt; 3) a meeting of the employees; 4) the bags of those women; 5) the orders of our boss; 6) the cottage of my parents; 7) coal deposits of the world; 8) the influence of the sun; 9) the atmosphere of the earth; 10) the arrival of the ship; 11) icy mountains of greenland; 12) the policy of the company; 13) gold reserves of russia; 14) the mother of kate and mary; 15) the paintings by picasso and dali; 16) the times of ivan the terrible; 17) the speech of the minister of foreign trade; 18) the wives of henry the eighth; 19) a flat of my father-in-law; 20) a cruise which lasts three weeks; 21) work which takes two hours; 22) a distance of fivekilometers; 23) the operation which lasted four hours; 24) a semester of eight weeks; 25) a play of three acts; 26) the rest which lasted an hour; 27) a football match which lasts ninety minutes; 28) a telephone conversation which lasts three minutes; 29)the gravitation of the planet; 30) the joys and grieves of life
2) Rembrandt's works;
3) the employees' meeting;
4) those women's bags;
5) our boss' (или boss's) orders;
6) my parents' cottage;
7) world's coal deposits;
8) the sun's influence;
9) the earth's atmosphere;
10) the ship's arrival;
11) Greenland's icy mountains;
12) the company's policy;
13) Russia's gold reserves;
14) Kate and Mary's mother;
15) Picasso's and Dali's paintings;
16) Ivan the Terrible's times;
17) the Minister of Foreign Trade's speech;
18) Henry the Eighth's wives;
19) my father-in-law's flat;
20) three weeks' cruise;
21) two hours' work;
22) five kilometers' distance;
23) four hours' operation;
24) eight weeks' semester;
25) three acts' play;
26) an hour's rest;
27) ninety minutes' football match;
28) three minutes' telephone conversation;
29) the planet's gravitation;
30) life's joys and grieves