The Electric Company - Good Old Apostrophe S

[justaloe]

Oh my God. Lee Chamberlin is 74! I bet she still looks good.

[BabyPheonix1]

this is so great and can be used to introduce the concept of the apostrophe in a beginning lesson. Thanks so much

[RJSchex]

Lee Chamberlin sure was "redd hawt" back then. Tomorrow (Valentine's Day) will be her 74th birthday.

[RatBatSpiderCrab]

Are those Lee's [ Apostrophe S ] real teeth?

[sunnyblonde2118]

I Judy in this skit, really getting into the groove of this song & full of confidence! She was great! I looooved her!

[sunnyblonde2118]

If this didn't motivate students, struggling to learn Apostrophes in school, I honestly don't what would as Lee Chamberlin was incredible in her demonstrations with examples shown such as Mary's Pie & Jim's hat. It is indeed a creative skit and love the part where Judy Graubart playing Mary drops the pie to get the audience's attention LOL!

[sunnyblonde2118]

I looooved this video & song very, very, catchy!!

[allpossibleworlds]

It's too bad they didn't include a verse to emphasize that apostrophe s is never used to pluralize nouns. If they had, teachers could show this video to all the illiterate high school and university students out there.

[NantoVision1]

@allpossibleworlds Not only students, but all of the small business owners out there who constantly make this mistake.

[allpossibleworlds]

@NantoVision1 I know... really someone needs to usher all people who write reports, design signs, and/or communicate via any variety of the written word, into this mammoth seminar in which all these types of basic grammatical structures are explained, thereby allowing grammar purists such as ourselves to die happy :)

Note: I shall now be very embarrassed if there are any grammatical errors in my post.

[kensi13pretenzie]

Jim is really John Lennon

[MIKECNW]

@kensi13pretenzie What are you talking about?

[TnseWlms]

A bit of trivia: In medieval English, the possessive s was only used for men, so they would say "Jim's hat" but "Mary pie". This same rule still holds in German, where only masculine and neuter nouns inflect and take the -s suffix in the genitive form.

[hedikomoon]

I'll be using this tomorrow. Thank you!

[stuiemonsterfan]

I remember this, been long time since I saw this

[MIKECNW]

Notice the loud thump when he drops his hat?