Question

Among the following sentences, only one has all the apostrophes correctly placed. Identify that correct sentence.
A. The world’s experts were quick to praise the two girls’ courage.
B. The world’s experts were quick to praise the two girl’s courage.
C. The worlds experts were quick to praise the two girls’ courage.
D. The worlds’ experts were quick to praise the two girls’ courage.

Answer 1

Hint: An apostrophe is used to show the possessive form of nouns. It is used with both singular and plural nouns.

Complete step by step answer:
Apostrophe is a punctuation mark that indicates the possessive form of nouns. We use the possessive form to describe the nouns referring to people, groups of people, countries, and so.
For a singular noun, we add an apostrophe as well as ‘s’ to the noun. Example: girl’s.
For plurals and words ending with ‘s’, we simply add an apostrophe as in girls’.

> As the ‘world’ is a singular noun, we write it as the world’s. Since two girls are mentioned here, we identify that its plural word ‘girls’ will become girls’.
Thus, option a becomes the right answer.

> Option b is wrong as girl’s is incorrect here.

> In option c, ‘worlds’ does not have an apostrophe and hence wrong.

> In option d, worlds' is incorrect as there exists only one world.

Note: One must not confuse the positioning of apostrophes as it changes the meaning then. Example: bird’s and birds’. It is also used to express shortened word forms.