Question

Fix the sentence by following the apostrophe rule.

The books story was pretty exciting, even though its cover was not.

A) The books' story was pretty exciting, even though its cover was not.
B) The book's story was pretty exciting, even though it's cover was not.
C) The book's story was pretty exciting, even though its cover was not.
D) The books story was pretty exciting, even though it's cover was not.

Answer 1

I think A because book's means "book is" so that wouldn't make sense so by process of elimination that takes away B&C. Proper grammar would have the apostrophe after the S so that takes away D leaving only A as an answer

Answer 2

The way to use the apostrophe s in this sentence is to show possessiveness.
The book's cover.
Allie's ball.
See? It shows that it is the book's cover.

Its is a possessive pronoun, while "it's" is a contraction meaning "it is", but that wouldn't make sense here.

I would say C.