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

One of her first votes was against declaring war on Germany, which marked the United States’s entry into World War I.
  1. the United States’s entry
  2. the United States’ entry
  3. the United State’s entries
  4. the United States’ entries
Explanation
Answer: B - The best choice is “the United States’ entry”

An apostrophe can show the possessive case of nouns by using an apostrophe and s. An apostrophe after the s can indicate a plural noun or a noun that ends in s.The United States is plural because it refers to more than one state. The verb “entry” agrees with “United States.”
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