Correct Answer:
A. The teachers loud voices startled the five year old child What a scene!
This question tests your understanding of English punctuation rules. The correct sentence uses the apostrophe to show possession, a hyphen to form a compound adjective, and proper punctuation to separate two independent sentences.
The phrase "teachers'" indicates that the loud voices belong to multiple teachers. The compound adjective "five-year-old" is hyphenated because it describes the noun "child". A full stop is correctly placed before the exclamatory sentence "What a scene!", allowing the exclamation to stand independently.
- Apostrophe: Teachers' (plural possessive).
- Hyphen: Five-year-old (compound adjective).
- Punctuation: A full stop separates the two sentences.
Therefore, the correct answer is: "The teachers' loud voices startled the five-year-old child. What a scene!"