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Capitals and Possessives is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on capitalizing proper nouns, and the possessive apostrophe after one owner or many, aligned to Common Core standard L.5.2. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Capitals and Possessives

L.5.2

NameDate

Rewrite each sentence correctly.

1.apostrophe

The geeses honking woke the farm.

2.apostrophe

The mens race started at noon.

3.apostrophe

Last weeks storm brought down a tree.

4.apostrophe

We borrowed my uncles boat for the day.

5.capitals

jenner tested his idea in 1796. it worked.

6.apostrophe

All the players boots were muddy.

7.capitals

orpheus played to the king. the king wept.

8.apostrophe

The three girls tent blew away in the night.

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Answer key — Capitals and Possessives

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.The geese's honking woke the farm.
  2. 2.The men's race started at noon.
  3. 3.Last week's storm brought down a tree.
  4. 4.We borrowed my uncle's boat for the day.
  5. 5.Jenner tested his idea in 1796. It worked.
  6. 6.All the players' boots were muddy.
  7. 7.Orpheus played to the king. The king wept.
  8. 8.The three girls' tent blew away in the night.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to L.5.2 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.