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If you want a bug in english, then how about: "Petting Dave's cat", "Going toMartha's Vineyard", "Using its eyes." (no apostrophe) What a stupid idea to make "
by gerbilly 7y ago
If you want a bug in english, then how about: "Petting Dave's cat", "Going toMartha's Vineyard", "Using its eyes." (no apostrophe)
What a stupid idea to make "it's" stand for "it is"
- pwinnski 7y ago"Using his eyes," "using her eyes," and "using its eyes" have a certain parallelism. Comparing proper nouns to pronouns has more problems than a missing apostrophe: note the lack of capitalization in the pronoun. Horrors!
- jfk13 7y agoNot a bug, IMO. In general, we have separate individual words for possessive pronouns; we don't create them by adding the possessive suffix to a nominative pronoun: I -> my (not I's), you -> your, he -> his, she -> her, it -> its, etc. "It's" is just the standard use of apostrophe to indicate a contraction.
- DoofusOfDeath 7y agoRegarding the apostrophe for possessive nouns in English, I came across this: [0] [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/history-and-use-of-the-apostrophe https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/history-and-us...