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• joshstrange 3y ago
  It's a possessive apostrophe: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/possessive-apostrophe/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/possessive-apostrophe/
  • skyyler 3y ago
    Did you read that article you linked? >The important thing to remember is don’t use possessive apostrophes with any pronouns, either possessive pronouns or possessive adjectives. >If you see an apostrophe with a pronoun, it must be part of a contraction. >its—possessive adjective of it >it’s—contraction for “it is” "its" would be correct in the root comment.
    • joshstrange 3y ago
      No I didn't read it fully, I knew what the concept was called, found an article, skimmed it until I was sure it was talking about the thing I thought it was. I'm almost positive I was taught in school that "it's" is a valid possessive apostrophe case and honestly I think it's stupid that it's not. I find "its" more confusing personally.
      • riffic 3y ago
        just sound it out in your head. If you see an apostrophe with it's, it usually means "it is" Otherwise someone oopsed and you can leave a dumb grammar comment on HN
      • skyyler 3y ago
        >I knew what the concept was called, found an article, skimmed it until I was sure it was talking about the thing I thought it was You just managed to summarise why having conversations with strangers is so difficult on the internet these days. Instead of considering that you were incorrect, even for a moment, you sought an article that you thought would confirm the ideas that you already had. Without even actually reading it, you used it as evidence that you were correct all along. Even though the article very clearly illustrates that you were mistaken. Fascinating.
        • joshstrange 3y ago
          You do understand that's not really what happened here right? The concept IS called possessive apostrophe and literally until this minute I wasn't aware that "it's" isn't grammatically correct when the "it" in the sentence is being used possessively. I didn't just find an article I thought agreed with me and fire it off, I thought "it's" was valid and riffic didn't know about possessive apostrophes (which again, I had wrong in this case). I didn't look for "it's" in the article because that wasn't up for debate in my mind (again, I can't stress this enough, I was wrong about the usage, any comment I've ever made uses "it's" in this case because that's how I thought it was used), I was just looking for the concept as a whole to link. I got a minor piece wrong and you want to lump me in with everyone who picks the first article that "agrees" with them.
          • mft_ 3y ago
            Thank you for owning the mistake - you're already ahead of many people on the internet :)
          • skyyler 3y ago
            I'm not lumping you in with anyone, I merely commented on how you sent a link because you thought it advanced your position when it actually advanced the position of the person you were "correcting". It's a behaviour I see all the time now, from all sorts of people. I certainly don't think less of you specifically for doing this. Thanks for being open to discussion, though!
          • metabagel 3y ago
            > "I got a minor piece wrong" You were entirely wrong. I generally remember this bit of grammar as the apostrophe replacing the missing letters of the contraction (which is not needed for the possessive situation).
      • HDThoreaun 3y ago
        You’re thinking of its’
        • riffic 3y ago
          Please prove that is a valid construction.
  • riffic 3y ago
    that's nonstandard though, lol. it's means it is or it has