Goomba38 wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> Hell, most people can't even spell "its" and it's" correctly.
>>
> <raises hand up to be counted> LOL

I don't know why this is so misunderstood.

These other possessive pronouns that are the pronoun with an added "s"
don't need apostrophes, either:

ours
yours
hers
theirs

I hope you aren't confused by *those*, too. See, the possessive "its" is
not even an exception -- it follows the *norm*: its, yours, hers, ours.

And "it's" is simply a contraction for "it is", so needs the apostrope of
contraction: "It is going to rain." "It's going to rain." That's no
different than the contractions "didn't" and "weren't" and "can't" -- the
apostrophe replaces what was left out of the contraction. Would you write
"dont" and "werent" and "cant"? Of course not. So use "it's" just the
same way. Neither "its" nor "it's" are exceptions to anything.


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