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Joanie Higgs's avatar

Yeah, proofreading's a must (apostrophe here because it's a contraction of "proofreading is"... same as "it's). The crazy thing about "it's" is that when that little word is meant as possessive, we drop the comma. English is complicated!

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The Great Resist's avatar

Seeing “it’s” and “its” used incorrectly is one of my top language pet peeves. Another is seeing “lead” (rhymes with fed) used as the past tense of the verb “lead” (rhymes with feed), instead of the correct “led”. Feed/fed, bleed/bled, lead/led. But then there’s read/read (not red). Ah, English!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

So "it is" should be "it's"?

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

Yes. Where as "its fur" has no apostrophe, even though the fur belongs to "it" so it normally should.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Thank you!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

What's the other exceptions?

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

Well, "yours" and "ours" come to mind. Theirs, too. No apostrophes.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yeah I remember those.

But no apostrophes with pronouns?

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

Sure: he's (he is) she's (she is)

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