Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “Nobody's Problem” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “Possessive Apostrophes quiz”! If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
Possessive apostrophes are used when you are writing about 'someone's thing'. The apostrophe can be a difficult thing to master but don't worry! Even many English people struggle with possessive apostrophes. By the time you've done this quiz, it should be 'Nobody's problem'!
Of course, you will often see an apostrophe in 'it's' (Answer 2) but here, the apostrophe is doing another job, showing that one or more letters have been left out ('It's a lovely day' = 'It is ...'; 'It's stopped raining' = 'It has ... ').
Answer 3 is simply wrong; it looks as though it is trying to express plural ownership (as in 'The players' delight when their team won') ... but how can 'it' have been plural in the first place?
The shark may happen to be male, but surely people are more concerned with the front end of it (i.e. the approaching teeth!) than whether this fish happens to be male or female, which you're unlikely to be able to tell from the front.