I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
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_Equality
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I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Or "it has." It's not possessive. "Its" is possessive. I just wanted to get that off my chest. Carry on.
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"The LDS church is the Amway of religions. Even with all the soap they sell, they still manage to come away smelling dirty."--Some Schmo
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_Fence Sitter
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Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
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.)
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_Morley
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Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
It's a difficult lesson because it's so often violated--even (occasionally) in formally published documents.
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_Dr. Shades
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Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Equality, you just rose in rank to one of my favorite posters of all time.
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_Doctor CamNC4Me
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Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Can someone explain to the Internet the difference between "your" and "you're"?
Thank you in advance.
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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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_MrStakhanovite
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_brade
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Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
Its' hold on you is strong.
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_Sethbag
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Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
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. :-)
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. :-)
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_Dr. Shades
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Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
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
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
--Louis Midgley
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_DarkHelmet
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Re: I-T-apostrophe-S always means "it is."
With a name like equality you sure don't believe in equality of grammar.
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