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Ones and Zeros East
the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism
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Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, you idiots
from Bob the Angry Flower is the only guide to the Apostrophe that anyone will ever need.
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2006-06-26 07:38 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, but he didn't explain "its" versus "it's". As far as apostrophe usage goes, contractions trump possessives: if something belongs to "it", it's "its".
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I blame a bad 3rd grade teacher that tried to teach me a rule without stating why.
"Its" does not have a apostrophe for the same reason "his" does not. It's a special possessive form of a word, not a contraction.
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Date: 2006-06-28 03:12 pm (UTC)"Its" does not have a apostrophe for the same reason "his" does not. It's a special possessive form of a word, not a contraction.