Practice Quiz

SAT Writing

Category - Improving Sentences

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Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A.

Rankins involvement helped Montanan women gain the right to vote in 1914.
  1. Rankins involvement helped
  2. Rankins’ involvement helped
  3. Rankins’s involvement helped
  4. Rankin’s involvement helped
Explanation
Answer: D - The best choice is “Rankin’s involvement helped”

An apostrophe can show the possessive case of single nouns by using an apostrophe and s. An apostrophe after the s can indicate a plural noun or a noun that ends in s.Rankin is one person whose last name ends in n, so the apostrophe should appear before the s.
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