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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 22, 2011 at 1:11am

Yeah, I didn't put much thought into the title.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan E. Hoffman on February 23, 2011 at 12:00am

actually, the proper grammar use of the apostrophe for It's is the shortening of it is. "Its" is the proper possession use. 

 

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000227.htm

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 23, 2011 at 1:20am

I almost wrote the same thing about the apostrophe when I read doone's reply, I just decided it wasn't important enough to comment on. If you look at my title, when I changed it from "their" to "Its" the other day, I punctuated it correctly, leaving out the apostrophe. :D

 

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Permalink Reply by Jaume on February 23, 2011 at 5:18am

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Permalink Reply by 3equ3cp1fsw0n on February 27, 2011 at 11:44am

Its my participle and I can dangle it if I want to.

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Permalink Reply by Jaume on February 27, 2011 at 12:51pm

You gawdamn'it heretic - Its not participle, its participal.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan E. Hoffman on February 27, 2011 at 1:02pm

you mean "It's." I thought we covered this issue already.

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Permalink Reply by Jaume on February 27, 2011 at 3:50pm

I mean what I mean. I'm a proud itsist and I'll fight the it'sist scourge by any mean necessary.

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Permalink Reply by Mo Trauen on February 27, 2011 at 7:30pm

No.  "It's" stands for a contraction of "it is".  The possessive "its" is written without the usual apostrophe in order to distinguish it from the contraction.  Check your Strunk and White.  If I remember correctly, this is the only exception to the usual rule that possessives are formed with an apostrophe.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on February 27, 2011 at 7:43pm

i) He was referring to the contraction in that case.

 

ii) The possessive forms of personal pronouns don't use apostrophes:

mine

your(s)

his

her(s)

its

our(s)

their(s)

Permalink Reply by idcollapse Ra on February 28, 2011 at 2:43pm

lol ... eagle eyes Ryan

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Permalink Reply by 3equ3cp1fsw0n on February 27, 2011 at 1:21pm

@ Jaume - Grammar Nazi!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM

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