Choose the sentence that is correctly punctuated.

A.

The lavatory's in the womens dorm always get crowded on Saturday afternoon.

B.

The lavatories in the womens' dorm always get crowded on Saturday afternoon.

C.

The lavatorie's in the womens' dorm always get crowded on Saturday afternoon.

D.

The lavatories in the women's dorm always get crowded on Saturday afternoon.

Answer:D

Explanation: First, you need to understand that English is a language and that a language is a medium of communication.

To communicate, you need alphabets which when joined together become words, and when words are joined together, they become sentences - phrases (a sentence with a complete sense of thought) or clauses (a sentence without a complete sense of thought).

In the English language, there are parts of speech, viz; Noun, Verb, Adjective, Preposition, Pronoun, etc.

Each part of speech is unique in its own way, some can be used to show singularity and/or plurality, some connote the tense of the speech-present, past or even future.

Think of English as a chain (they are connected together and complementary-lock and key), and there must be agreement called concord.

For your question, the first thing we do is parse the sentence and group each word into its appropriate part of speech;

The: An article, definite article.

Lavatories: Noun, plural noun indicating more than 1. In English, most words (noun) that end in 'y' are singular, and their plural form end with 'ies.'

In: Preposition. It's a preposition in this case because of the usage. It could be an adjective also, depending on the usage. For instance, Suits are IN this year.

The: A define article

Women's: A proper noun, plural in nature, and shows possession, hence the apostrophe 'S'. The singular form is woman.

Dorm: A noun, singular in nature, the clipped form of dormitory.

Always: An advaerb, used to modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, but never a noun or a noun phrase. In this case, its and adverb of time, used to modify 'Saturday afternoon.'

Get: A verb (singular in nature, copulative because of its usage), which relationship is to the plural noun 'lavatories'. Learn that a singular verb is used to address a plural noun and vice-versa.

Crowded: An adjective of population, describing the degree of occupancy of the lavatories. The tense is in the past because of how the sentence is.

On: Preposition of position or time. Could also assume other parts of speech, depend on how you couch the sentence.

Saturday: Noun used to describe the day of the week, it is a proper noun, hence, it must always begin with a capital letter.

Afternoon: Noun, indicating what time of the day.