b it is important to make progress
The sentence that follows the correct apostrophe rule is option C. The book's story was pretty exciting, even though its cover was not. The correct placement of the apostrophe should be on the word "book's" because it shows ownership, which means "the story of the book". The word "its" should not have an apostrophe because "it's" is the shorter term for "it is".
C. is the correct answer.
C is the only answer choice that refers to the future ("a sign, he said, a sign"). The rest of the answers refer to things happening in the present in the story, with almost no reference to the future of the plot.
1. "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
<span>And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
- this is a trochee, which means that the first syllable is stressed, and then followed by an unstressed syllable: ah (stressed) dis- (unstressed) tinct- (stressed) -ly (unstressed), etc.
2. The other poem is written in free verse, which means that it doesn't follow any rules when it comes to rhymes, stanzas, verses, etc.</span>
