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Which sentence shows correct apostrophe use?

Question 16 options:

a)

The dog ate its food but not the cat’s food.

b)

The dog ate it’s food but not the cat’s food.

c)

The dog ate it’s food but not the cat food.

d)

The dog ate it’s food but not the cats’ food.

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User Saulpower
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a) The dog ate its food but not the cat’s food.

“its” does not have an apostrophe when used in the possessive, and “cat’s” has the apostrophe between t and s because there is only one cat.
User Miles McCrocklin
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