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On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> It's easy enough: "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is/was/has". |
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> The apostrophe denotes a missing letter or two, not possession. |
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The confusion arises because, when used with a name, an apostrophe is |
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needed for a possessive. Of course, if you refer to everyone as "it", |
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the confusion disappears :) |
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It is an understandable error, unlike grocers' apostrophe's, which crop |
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up everywhere and are far more grating for me. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Don't let your mind wander, it's too little to be let out alone. |
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