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14. After the game, we all went over to Melissa’s house to play with her mom’s karaoke
machine.
15. What did you think of the New York Times’s coverage of the presidential inauguration?
16. In 1954, the Supreme Court decided unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that
segregated schools were unconstitutional.
17. It bothers my uncle that this magazine spells out the word percent instead of using the
% symbol.
18. Michela’s favorite opera by Mozart is The Marriage of Figaro.
19. Our panel discussion is going to be about Mikhail Gorbachev’s revolutionary policy of
perestroika in the Soviet Union of the 1980s.
20. My grandfather sent me a postcard of Rembrandt’s Man in the Golden Helmet.
21. The name of the interesting Swedish casserole with potatoes, onions, and anchovies
was Janssons Frestelse, or “Johnson’s Temptation.”
22. I want to finish my homework early so I can watch the Pearl Jam concert on MTV
Unplugged.
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Lesson 92
The Apostrophe
Use an 
apostrophe 
and -s for the possessive of a singular indefinite pronoun. Do not use
an apostrophe with any other possessive pronouns.
everyone’s duty
one’s own recipe
whose car
its paw
Use an apostrophe and -s to form the possessive of a singular noun, even one that ends in -s. 
the boy’s mountain bike
the fox’s tail
the glass’s rim
Use an apostrophe alone to form the possessive of a plural noun that ends in -s. Use an
apostrophe and -s if the plural does not end in -s. Do not use an apostrophe to form the
plural of a date.
the Lions’ meeting
children