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> cybercat wrote:
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>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
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>>> Goomba38 wrote:
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>>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
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>>>>> Hell, most people can't even spell "its" and it's" correctly.
>>>>>
>>>> <raises hand up to be counted> LOL
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>>> 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*
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You sexy, bloodthirsty devil you.