"Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>

A bloodthirsty shark giving English lessions. How sexy is that? *fanning
myself*