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Removed the first part as it's answered in https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/175612/whats-the-correct-unit-for-homework
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Use of singular/plural form in "their husband's pyres"

  1. The students have completed their homework.
  2. The students have completed their homeworks.
  3. Raja Rammohan Roy was greatly pained when he heard the cries of widows being burnt on their husband's pyres.
  4. Raja Rammohan Roy was greatly pained when he heard the cries of widows being burnt on their husbands' pyres. Please suggest with explanation which is correct in 1&2 and 3&4.

Please suggest with explanation which is correct in 1 and 2.

Use of singular/plural form

  1. The students have completed their homework.
  2. The students have completed their homeworks.
  3. Raja Rammohan Roy was greatly pained when he heard the cries of widows being burnt on their husband's pyres.
  4. Raja Rammohan Roy was greatly pained when he heard the cries of widows being burnt on their husbands' pyres. Please suggest with explanation which is correct in 1&2 and 3&4.

Use of singular/plural form in "their husband's pyres"

  1. Raja Rammohan Roy was greatly pained when he heard the cries of widows being burnt on their husband's pyres.
  2. Raja Rammohan Roy was greatly pained when he heard the cries of widows being burnt on their husbands' pyres.

Please suggest with explanation which is correct in 1 and 2.

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Use of singular/plural form

  1. The students have completed their homework.
  2. The students have completed their homeworks.
  3. Raja Rammohan Roy was greatly pained when he heard the cries of widows being burnt on their husband's pyres.
  4. Raja Rammohan Roy was greatly pained when he heard the cries of widows being burnt on their husbands' pyres. Please suggest with explanation which is correct in 1&2 and 3&4.