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To: Sloth
The old Johnson house had always been mysterious. It's old fence......

The apostrophe can be used for the contraction of "it is", but also to show possession such as "Jimmy's bat", in this case "It's old fence". The intention is not to show the plural as in "its all up to you". I think the "it's" form is correct.

59 posted on 04/25/2003 9:10:54 AM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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To: Hodar
It's is a contraction for it is or it has.

Its is a possessive pronoun meaning, more or less, of it or belonging to it.

And just for the record there is absolutely, positively, no such word as its'

66 posted on 04/25/2003 9:25:46 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket (God bless the coalition troops and their families)
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