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Subject:It's and its From:Angela <amoore -at- SOFTDESK -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:17:56 -0700
John wrote:
>Anyone (beside/besides?) me notice how ^into^ is
>being (incorrectly) replaced by ^in^?
I'll have to pay more attention in the future, I hadn't noticed that one yet. But the biggie that gets me is the improper use of ^it's^.
An ^it^ can never own anything, so it can't own an apostrophe. It only gets an ^its^, unless it's a contraction of ^it is^.
Example:
It's a beautiful day!
The little bug is pretty, its wings are a nice shade of green.
-angela
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(Does not express the opinion of Softdesk)
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die of a misprint." - Mark Twain
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