A. My dog was unable to relocate it’s buried bone.
B. Our old oak tree has dropped all of it’s leaves.
C. The overplayed song has lost its appeal for me.
D. Its been too many weeks since it last rained.
Answer:
The answer is indeed letter C. The overplayed song has lost its appeal for me.
Explanation:
The options provided in the question concern the homophones "it's" and "its." They are commonly mistaken for each other dues to their sounding the same, and are consequently used erroneously. "It's" is the contraction of the subject pronoun "it" and the third-person singular verb "is." For that reason, "it's" is used as the subject of a clause, frequently substituting some previously mentioned noun or referring, for instance, to natural phenomena. The examples below help illustrate it:
- It's snowing again. - natural phenomenon
- My bike is making a weird noise when I try to start it. It's broken, I think. - substituting "my bike"
"Its", on the other hand, is a possessive adjective. It accompanies a noun, modifying it, to establish a relationship of possession between that noun and another one. Study the example below:
- That stray cat is constantly licking its paws. - the paws belong to the cat
Having that in mind, we can tell letter C is the only option that uses the correct homophone, since "its" establishes a relationship of possession between the song and the appeal. The song has an appeal. Its appeal (the song's) has been lost.
Letters A and B use "it's" when they should employ "its", and letter D does the opposite, using "its" when it actually needs the subject+verb "it's".
This candy isn’t very sweet.
This candy is hardly sweet.
This candy isn’t hardly sweet.
2. Which of the following sentences contains a double negative?
Vanilla is not my favorite.
They don’t never have chocolate.
Ice cream is delicious.
I didn’t get two scoops.
The answer to your question would be that the sentences that contain a double negative are the following ones: "This candy isn't hardly sweet" and "They don't never have chocolate."
A double negative occurs when there are two negative elements within the same clause. In the first case, the sentence contains the negative particle not and the negative adverb hardly. In the second one, the negative elements are the negative particle not and the negative adverb never.
A. Because the cold front arrived, it snowed.
B. If you mix pleasure and business,
business suffers.
C. We've
learned that Sally Jones had a child, but who was the father?
D. Jack slew the giant because he sold the cow for magic
beans
Answer:
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B. I want to go swimming but, the pool has already closed for the day.
C. Several flowers have bloomed in the garden and more will surely bloom this week.
D. I might wear this black dress or I might wear the red dress.