To: Revolting cat!
Rule of thumb: you never NEED to use an apostrophe in "its." That means that you can always say "it is" if the apostrophe on your typewriter doesn't work, and while the possessive "its" may be necessary to use in your text, an apostrophe is never necessary.
(Thank heaven I'm not the only one for whom this misuse is fingernails on the blackboard!)
21 posted on
11/07/2004 7:04:01 PM PST by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
To: Beelzebubba
(Thank heaven I'm not the only one for whom this misuse is fingernails on the blackboard!) No, you're not alone. Misuse of apostrophes in general makes me crazy.
To: Beelzebubba
Thank heaven I'm not the only one for whom this misuse is fingernails on the blackboard! I see much worse all the time.
We pickers of nit are in the minority though.
32 posted on
11/07/2004 7:26:38 PM PST by
Graybeard58
(Democrats strongly support voting rights for Necro-Americans)
To: Beelzebubba
You know, it used to be that the grammarians and the pedants were those who objected to the aints and the wannas and the gonnas of the everyday speech, but now, as we define illiteracy down, it's those of us who of object to the violations of written English rules, such yours instead of you'res, and its instead of it's. Well, maybe their right, the philistines are, and there are no difference between its and it is! So their!
39 posted on
11/07/2004 7:52:11 PM PST by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: Beelzebubba
(Thank heaven I'm not the only one for whom this misuse is fingernails on the blackboard!)Your right! Its a shame, but their never gonna get it write
48 posted on
11/07/2004 9:14:28 PM PST by
Mygirlsmom
(THANK YOU OHIO! THANK YOU AMERICA!!!!!)
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