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Read the following sentence and choose the correction in apostrophe use, if any. The newspapers witnesses told conflicting accounts of the event.

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Answer:B

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The apostrophe should be placed right after the final -s in "newspapers".

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The apostrophe is used to show possession. With singular nouns, you should add an apostrophe plus the letter -s (see 1). With plural nouns, you should only add an apostrophe after the -s (see 2). In the sentence above, the plural noun "newspapers" lacks the apostrophe, so the possession relationship between newspapers and witnesses is not grammatically shown.

1) A woman's dress

2) Guys' night out

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