Saturday, May 22, 2010

Choose the answer that corrects the error in the following sentence.?

1. Choose the answer that corrects the error in the following sentence.


The train's schedule had not been posted in its usual place but, instead, had been placed over the ticket counter's window.


(A) trains'





(B) it's





(C) counters'





(D) no error


2. Perhaps your question's answer is to be found in an article of her' that I found just the other day in the library's reference section.


(A) questions'





(B) her





(C) libraries'





(D) no error


3. A friendly assistant from the hotel's office said that these rooms by the pool were ours'.


(A) hotels'





(B) room's





(C) ours





(D) no error


4. Yes, these are the Walkers tennis racquets, and those are theirs, too; we borrowed them for a few days.


(A) Walkers'





(B) racquets'





(C) their's





(D) no error


Linda's and Dave's reports will be projected on several computers' screens for easy viewing.


(A) Linda





(B) Daves'





(C) computer's





(D) no error

Choose the answer that corrects the error in the following sentence.?
D


B


C


A


A OR D because the sentence could be interpreted two ways. It could be A if the reports by both individuals are the SAME ..however, if they had different reports to do individually (i.e. Linda had 5 reports and Dave had 4 reports and all of them were put up) then it would be D.
Reply:1) no error


2) her ( please check - i think the actual answer is hers)


3) ours


4) walkers'


5) no error
Reply:You really ought to do your own homework. Nearly all of your questions involve asking someone else to do your homework for you.





You aren't going to learn anything that way. Try doing a Yahoo search on the possesive form of nouns so you understand this for yourself.


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