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It's vs. Its
- acqq 13y agoMuch better is: http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif
- EduardoBautista 13y agoIf English is your native language and you still don't know this...
- sixbrx 13y agoI have no problem remembering the rule, I absolutely recognize it immediately every time I see a misuse in someone else's writing. The problem is, my brain wants to be able to do substitution of "<named-thing>'s" to "<it>'s", as if the pronoun were a variable and thus amenable to substitution wherever the name of the thing itself could be used, so without noticing it often comes out (after substitution) as "it's".
- esrauch 13y agoI feel the same way as you. This is the rule in English and it seems like a bad rule.