Question

Write the possessive versions of the following :

a) The responsibility of somebody else.

b) The house of Mr John, the lawyer.

c) The complaint of the students.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The noun in question is 'parents'. Since there is nothing in the sentence that mentions only one parent, we take it to be 'parents' in general.

The possessive form of a noun is made using an 's. When the noun is plural and it ends with an s, then the possessive noun is made using just an apostrophe '.

Option B: The possessive form of the noun 'parents' is made using an ' : parents'. Hence option B is correct.

Option A: The noun 'parents' is not in the possessive case.

Option C: 'Parent' in 'parent's' is a singular noun, whereas the noun in the sentence is plural.

Option D: Parents's is not the right form because we don't put an s after an apostrophe ' in plural nouns.

Hence options A, C and D are incorrect.