Question

Among the following sentences, only one has all the apostrophes correctly placed.
Identify that correct sentence.
a)My parent’s flat is in one of the city’s finest areas.
b)My parents’ flat is in one of the citys finest areas’.
c)My parents’ flat is in one of the city’s finest areas.
d)My parents’ flat is in one of the city’s finest areas.

Answer 1

Hint: Apostrophe is used to show possession of something or contraction of words. With a singular noun the apostrophe is used before ‘s’ and with plural nouns after ‘s’.

Complete step-by-step answer:

 When we have a plural noun then the apostrophe is after the ‘s’ and before the ‘s’ if it is a singular noun. If you understand this then let us look into the above-given sentence.
In the above sentence the word - ‘parents’ is a plural noun and the ‘flat’ belongs to the parents. Since we know that with plural nouns the apostrophe comes after ‘s’. Therefore, the correct phrase with apostrophe would-be – parents’ flat.
Now the other word with an apostrophe is – city, which is a singular noun and the phrase ‘finest areas’ is referring to the city. This implies the use of apostrophe would be – the city's finest areas.
With the word ‘areas’ no apostrophe is used or needed because in the sentence nothing is mentioned about the areas.
This implies that the correct solution for the given question is an option – d, i.e. my parents’ flat is in one of the city’s finest areas.

 Note: Keep the rules regarding apostrophe in mind that way you will put the apostrophe in the correct area. Remember apostrophe is not used before the possessive – s with pronouns.