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In Reply to: A couple of "minor" corrections. posted by DLD on August 01, 2004 at 20:40:48:
Speaking of those nasty contractions:ones ? one's
Thats ? That'sSorry, I couldn't resist either. ; )
Cetaele (aka Bob)
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No problem. Those always give me fits. It's tough sometimes. Wait, correct that, "Its" tough sometimes.I wrote my bro n law the other day,
"They're on the way to their new house located over there by the hill" after getting one of his butchered "Their" E-mails. He never even asked WTF I was talking about.
Guess there's prolly more important things to worry about.
Wait, make that, "there are"
No, make that "theres"
........................."I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
"It's" is the contraction of "It is". "Its" is the possesive (e.g., the cat licked its tail). But you prolly were kidding.
I just went to this complete waste of time, 8 hour, "Plain English Writing" class for work.One of the questions somebody posed was whether there is a contractive "It's" and if so, when to use it. The instructor, not that he's (hes????) the ultimate God of Good Grammar, said, its OK to use "its" for both cases and forget the contraction. I always thought like you did, that you need the apostrophe to make "it" tie to the verb "to be". Maybe "its" all just the part of the overall "dumbing down" of grammar and English as taught in the 21st century. Think I'll go add up a column of numbers and crunch em a bit. That hasn't been changed, yet. Maybe I'll do Halliburton's EPS for FY '03 vs. FY '02.
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