Given below are four sentences. Choose the one which is grammatically correct:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → The school bus has changed its route because of the metro work.
Possessive determiners:
- “Its” (no apostrophe) is a possessive determiner. It means belonging to it. “It’s” is short for “it is” or “it has”.
- In Option 2, “its route” means the route of the school bus. So the sentence is correct.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: The players carried his own kit bags to the bus after the match. — Incorrect. “Players” is plural, so it needs “their”, not “his”.
Corrected: The players carried their own kit bags to the bus after the match.
Option 3: Who’s notebook is lying on the teacher’s table? — Incorrect. “Who’s” means “who is”. Before a noun we need the possessive “whose”.
Corrected: Whose notebook is lying on the teacher’s table?
Option 4: Our society gym has shut it’s doors for repairs this week. — Incorrect. “It’s” means “it is”. To show that the doors belong to the gym, we need “its”.
Corrected: Our society gym has shut its doors for repairs this week.