Question

Question

Which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 7 (reproduced below)?
Not only that, but after just nine generations, the fox's ears became floppier, their coats became spotted,
and their tails became curlier-characteristics that are common across domesticated species.
O as it is now)
O fox's ear's
foxes' ears
O foxes ears'

Answer 1

Answer: foxes' ears

Step-by-step explanation:

When an item doesn't belong to only one person, we use the apostrophe to show plural possession in such case.

It should be noted that "fox's" is the possessive for a single fox while foxes' is the possessive for plural fox. An apostrophe is added at the end of foxes shows that the ears of multiple foxes are being talked of.

Therefore, the correct option is "foxes' ears".