1. The chief of the three departments met for more than an hour.

2. There are 12 extremely sharp cutting knife in that food preparation machine.

3. More than 70 box per hour can be packed using that method.

4. Car ferry are still used instead of bridges in many places.

5. Every year, all of the alumna of the three local women’s colleges hold a reunion.

6. Four full place settings of dish are packed in each carton.

7. The wife and husbands all finally met at the company picnic.

8. We’re doing research to determine ways to make fresh tomato last longer on store shelf.

9. Today there are no ash coming from the chimney of our factory.

10. The legal brief arrived from our corporate attorney this morning.

Questions 11–17: Identify the correct possessive form.

11. His sister’s-in-law/sister-in-law’s letter came as a surprise to Chuck.

12. Arizona’s/Arizonas’ climate is dry.

13. She is writing a paper on Byron and Shelley’s/Byron’s and Shelley’s poems.

14. I met a man whose/who’s sister I know.

15. It’s too bad that the dog’s/dogs’ foot got hurt.

16. Smith’s/Smiths’ house is red.

17. Kevin and Mike’s/Kevin’s and Mike’s parents, Arthur and Alice Brooks, are both scientists.