Apostrophes

Are these dogs somebody else’s?

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• elses

• elses’

• elses’s

The womens’ purses were studded with diamond jewels.

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• womens

• women’s

• womens’s

The Smiths kitchen was renovated last year.

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• Smiths’

• Smith’s

• Smiths’s

Later, everybody’s cellphone notified them of the terrible weather to come.

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• everybodys’

• everybodies’

• everybodys’s

The girls team won the basketball game by thirty points.

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• girls’

• girls’s

• girl’s

Van Gogh’s and Picasso’s paintings are famous around the world.

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• Van Gogh and Picasso’s

• Van Goghs’s and Picassos’s

• Van Goghs’ and Picassos’

SNL’s current director is Don Roy King.

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• SNLs

• SNLs’s

• SNLs’

She just put in her two weeks’s notice.

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• weeks

• week’s

• weeks'

The groomer painted the puppies nails pink.

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• puppies'

• puppy's

• puppie's

Last year, the Joneses’ Christmas card included their pet fish.

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• Jones’

• Jones’s

• Joneses’s