Question

The teachers attendance book recorded teachers attendance through the years classes.
Choose the option that best corrects the sentence.
a)No change
b)The teacher’s attendance book recorded teacher’s attendance through the year’s classes.
c)The teachers’ attendance book recorded teachers’ attendance through the years classes.
d)The teachers’ attendance book recorded teacher’s attendance through the year’s classes.

Answer 1

Hint: Regular plural nouns are used to specify that there are more than one person, thing, animal, or place in the sentence.

Complete step-by-step answer:

Regular plural nouns are formed by adding ‘s’ or ‘es’ to the singular noun of that word.
Now, let’s look at the given question: We can understand that the sentence includes a large number of teachers whose attendance was recorded in the attendance book through the year’s classes. Here, teachers are a plural noun, while the year is a singular noun.
So, we will form the possessive case of the plural and singular nouns to show possession of the noun:
1)The possessive case of a singular noun is made by adding an apostrophe and a ‘s’ at the end of the word. Example- The boy’s car, the teacher’s book, etc.
2)The possessive case of a plural noun is made by adding only an apostrophe when the noun ends in ‘s’, but we add both an apostrophe and a ‘s’ if the noun ends in any other letter than ‘s’. Example- The lawyers’ case, five weeks’ vacation, etc.
Let’s examine the given options:
 b. We know that teachers is a plural noun. So, we need to add only an apostrophe at the end of the noun. Hence, it is an incorrect option.
c. The possessive case of the noun ‘teacher’ is appropriate but the sentence does not include the possessive case of the singular noun ‘year’.
d. The possessive cases of both the singular and the plural noun is appropriate. Hence, it is the correct option.
The correct answer is Option ‘d’.

Note: It is important to remember the rules of apostrophes and possessive cases to avoid getting confused between the possessive case of plural and a singular noun.