SAT OwlQuestion bank / Form, Structure, and Sense
Archaeologists studying ancient stone ______ in Britain and Ireland have found that many of them were aligned with the sunrise or sunset on the summer or winter solstice.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
monument's
monuments'
monument's,
monuments
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Answer: D
The archaeologists are studying more than one monument ("many of them"), and nothing belongs to the monuments in this phrase. The simple plural "monuments" is correct, with no apostrophe.
Choice B adds a possessive apostrophe, but the monuments don't own anything in this sentence.
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