Which form is correct for indicating possessive ownership of the fans in the sentence?

Which form is correct for indicating possessive ownership of the fans in the sentence?

• A. shows
• B. shows'
• C. show
• D. show's

Answer: (D)

Ownership is shown with apostrophes. When the possessor is a singular noun, you add 's after it. Here, the owner is a single show, and we want to talk about the fans that belong to that show. So we use the possessive form of show: show’s, placed before the noun being possessed: the show's fans. The other options don’t express ownership correctly: shows would be a plural noun or a verb; shows' would mark ownership by multiple shows (plural possessive) but doesn’t fit the intended owner; show lacks any possessive marker, so it wouldn’t show ownership.

Ownership is shown with apostrophes. When the possessor is a singular noun, you add 's after it. Here, the owner is a single show, and we want to talk about the fans that belong to that show. So we use the possessive form of show: show’s, placed before the noun being possessed: the show's fans. The other options don’t express ownership correctly: shows would be a plural noun or a verb; shows' would mark ownership by multiple shows (plural possessive) but doesn’t fit the intended owner; show lacks any possessive marker, so it wouldn’t show ownership.