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its, hers, his, whose, ours, yours, and theirs. Never seen it put that way before - pretty cool. Just found an excellent webpage on the possessive apostrophe. Some notable and relevant excerpts: The only major exception to the rule that possessives in English use an apostrophe involves certain possessive pronouns, such as its, hers, ours, theirs, which don't use an apostrophe. Unlike most other contractions, "it's" does get confused with "its" rather often, but it's easy to remember its rule, since all standard English contractions use an apostrophe, no exception. Thus, if there's an apostrophe with "it's," it must be a contraction of "it is," and "its" with no apostrophe must then be the possessive form of "it." The same is true of "who's" (contraction of "who is") and "whose" (possessive, "of whom, belonging to whom").
You don't have to live in a bubble just because someone else caught the flu. Make your decision on your ability to trust yourself. - NytWolf 15:49:05 12/17/06
I was previously a aviation mechanic and avionic technician and this car is harder to work on than Aircraft. - Hocuz77 03:04:56 02/28/06 |
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