C14 · Several regular plural ownersYear 3 English · T1 W9–10 · Sources / C14 · Text version

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Three fictional players share one box of paper game cards. Their draft label is ‘the players box’. The intended meaning is a box belonging to those several players, so the label can read ‘the players’ box’. A separate one-player example reads ‘the player’s box’. The source supplies which meaning is intended; neither version is chosen by guessing from handwriting. A note says ‘We do not want the cards mixed’, which may become ‘We don’t want the cards mixed’. The activity concerns regular plural players and a familiar contraction. It does not teach every irregular plural possessive pattern or prove independent spelling from a copied model.

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Original complete fictional ordinary teaching source; adult-read option, not unseen held assessment.