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This article is rambling, unfocused, inaccurate, and has many distracting grammatical errors. Why is it upvoted?
by aaronbrager 12y ago
This article is rambling, unfocused, inaccurate, and has many distracting grammatical errors. Why is it upvoted?
- Udik 12y agoI was about to complain about the constant, ubiquitous and severely annoying (for me) confusion between "it's" and "its". I'm finding it more and more, everyday and everywhere, in articles and posts. People, what's so difficult about it? "It's" === "it is". Therefore, "it's own" === "it is own"; "it's merit" === "it is merit". You can work out the rest.
- sp332 12y agoThe collar of the cat => The cat's collar. The collar of it => its collar. Possessives usually are formed with 's.
- getsat 12y agoHis, hers, its, yours, theirs
- ratsmack 12y ago"Its, without an apostrophe, is the possessive of the pronoun it. It’s, with an apostrophe, is a contraction of it is or it has. If you’re not sure which spelling to use, try replacing it with it is or it has. If neither of those phrases works in its place, then its is the word you’re looking for."
- kome 12y agoBecause we care about the content, and not about the quality of English. To many of us English is a second or third language, so we care even less.