Question

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence-
The mens' meeting was held in the house's basement.
a) The men's meeting was held in the houses' basement.
b) The mens meeting was held in the house's basement.
c) The men's meeting was held in the house's basement.
d) No change.

Answer 1

Hint:Such questions have a few types of errors, such as punctuation errors, or capital letter errors. We have to find out which error is there in the given sentence and then correct it.

Complete answer:
The given sentence has mens' in it, which is wrong. We do not write the plural of a man like this. Here, ‘men’ is already plural, and we do not need an apostrophe ‘s’ with it. The rest of the sentence is correct.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer :
Option ‘a’ – This is the wrong option as if we closely see, “houses' “are written in this sentence, which is wrong. The meeting is being held in a single house, so we will not use the plural of ‘house’.
Option ‘b’ – This is also an incorrect option as the usage of ‘mens’ is there. ‘Men' is already in plural form, and we cannot use ‘s’ with it, in any given sentence.
Option ‘c’ – The usage of ‘men’s’ and ‘house's' is correct here. There is no grammatical or logical error.
Option ‘d’ – We can use this option if the given sentence is already correct, and no more changes are required any further. But the given sentences are not correct, so we will eliminate this option.
As we have analyzed all the given options, we can easily figure out the correct answer. Here, the correct sentence would be – The men's meeting was held in the house's basement. Hence, option ‘c’ is the correct option.

Note:
An apostrophe ‘s’ is used when we are talking about that particular thing. It is not used to convert a singular word to its plural form. It is always written with a “ ‘ “ before it.