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I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:20 pm
by _Equality
Or "it has." It's not possessive. "Its" is possessive. I just wanted to get that off my chest. Carry on.
Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:28 pm
by _Fence Sitter
Equality wrote:Or "it has." It's not possessive. "Its" is possessive. I just wanted to get that off my chest. Carry on.
I see this is having a negative affect on you. =/
(Yes I realize I am one of the guilty ones.)
Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:33 pm
by _Morley
It's a difficult lesson because it's so often violated--even (occasionally) in formally published documents.
Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:51 pm
by _Dr. Shades
Equality, you just rose in rank to one of my favorite posters of all time.
Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:57 pm
by _Doctor CamNC4Me
Can someone explain to the Internet the difference between "your" and "you're"?
Thank you in advance.
- VRDRC
Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:00 am
by _MrStakhanovite
Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:01 am
by _brade
Its' hold on you is strong.
Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:02 am
by _Sethbag
I'm just throwing this out there as a preventive thing: I often use "their" when I mean "there". I know the difference between the two, but when I'm on a roll and typing fast, my brain will often tell my fingers to type "t-h-e-i-r" based, I don't know, on some kind of homophonic ambiguity during the word lookup incident to mental meaning-to-word translation. I've been known to mix up other homophones this way too, but "their/there" is by far the most common.
So if you ever see a "their" in my prose which ought to be "there", please rest assured that I do in fact know the difference, then take a chill pill and relax. :-)
Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:16 am
by _Dr. Shades
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Can someone explain to the Internet the difference between "your" and "you're"?
Sure. Please read the following post by me:
viewtopic.php?p=21605#p21605
Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:18 am
by _DarkHelmet
With a name like equality you sure don't believe in equality of grammar.
