Punctuation

Please check if these are the correct answers. Thank you for your help!

For #1, do I need to put a period after letter “s” for lbs.

  1. Does the recipe require three [color=red]lbs. of sugar?

  2. _________responsible for the broken copy machine?
    [color=red] a. Who’s
    b. Whose

  3. My best ____ truck stalled in our driveway yesterday.
    [color=red]a. friend’s
    b. friends’

  4. Parks are good places to study __________ behavior.
    a. dog’s
    [color=red] b. dogs’

For #5 and 6, I don’t know which one is the correct answer.

  1. Cross the ts in this document.
    a. Cross’
    b. t’s
    c. this’
    d. Doc’ument

  2. The books are our; the notebooks are Thomas
    a. book’s
    b. notebook’s
    c. our’s
    d. Thomas’

  1. Cross the ts in this document.
    a. Cross’
    [color=red] b. t’s
    c. this’
    d. Doc’ument

  2. The books are our; the notebooks are Thomas
    a. book’s
    b. notebook’s
    [color=red] c. our’s
    d. Thomas’

Sorry Bn, but no.

In 6 there are 2 mistakes. It should be “The books are ours (not our’s (doesn’t exist, like her’s, your’s or their’s)), the notebooks are Thomas’s” (a word naturally ending in s has an apostrophe s after it). Bad question.

And in 5, I would point out that “t’s” is not a possessive, so should, in theory, have no apostrophe.
However, as ‘dot the is and cross the ts’ would be silly, it is often given as i’s and t’s, but to be properly correct it should be “dot the 'i’s and cross the 't’s” … though maybe that’s going too far. :wink:

Hi Thredder,

I dashed that reply off before I left for work this morning and looking at it now I don’t know what I was thinking. I’m appalled at myself. Thanks.

Hey you picked the best of the suggested answers, I can totally understand that. They are bad questions, don’t beat yourself up :wink: