Re: Pet Peeve #26b

From: Russell Blackford (rblackford@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 17:30:02 MDT


Chuck Kuecker said

>I always understood " its' " was a possessive...

No, the possessive is simply "its".

The contraction for "it is" is, indeed, "it's".

Mind you, even if we know these things, I find it's (phew, got that one
right!) an easy typo to make.

Yours grammatically

Russell

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