Pet Peeve #26b

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 12:09:06 MDT


Know ye all posters:

"It's" MEANS ONLY "it is".

The apostrophe in this case ALWAYS MEANS a contraction.

(To write a possessive, such as "The dog buried its bone",
one does not use an apostrophe.)

The word "it's" is NEVER to be used as a possessive.

Lee Corbin



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