Question

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence.
                The President of America’s speech was applauded by the audience.

Answer 1

Hint:Remember, the apostrophe is always used after the last term of a proper pronoun or a term that refers to the designation of a specific person. It isn’t used with each word or term individually and serves the purpose of ‘showing the possession’ of something by someone.

Complete answer:
 Let us now explain all the options-
A. There shall be NO CHANGE in the given sentence as the given statement is most appropriate in the given syntax. The possessiveness of the article is very well addressed to by the Proper Noun (President of America’s).

B. The option is incorrect because we’ve already seen that in proper noun(s) or a specific designation the last term takes the possessive character and so both the designation and the country’s names shan’t take up apostrophes.

C. It is incorrect because the sentence fails to express the possessive tone of the sentence; the speech has been made by the President of America and this sentence fails to highlight the possession of his act, i.e. the speech.

D. In the case of the last statement, the term President takes up the possessive nature which implies that it should be automatically followed by the object or act which is related to the President. However, in this case, the possessive term is followed by ‘of America’ (which should have been preceded by something/something related to America) which resulted in a syntax error.

Hence, the correct answer is Option ‘A’.

Note:Apostrophes have a few major uses, i.e. to show ownership, omissions, and plural letters, numbers, and symbols. It is used with the last name(s) when a relation of possession or belongingness of an act or an object to the concerned person has to be shown. Such pronouns that seek to establish a relation of ownership or belongingness are termed as Possessive Pronouns. In the given question, we needn’t (apostrophe used here for omission) make any changes because we’re showing the possession of the President of America’s (Proper noun) possession of his speech. Therefore, as stated previously, the correct answer is Option (A).