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In Reply to: Re: corrections abound :) posted by DLD on August 02, 2004 at 06:08:37:

"It's" is the contraction of "It is". "Its" is the possesive (e.g., the cat licked its tail). But you prolly were kidding.

No I wasn't kidding - DLD 08:09:16 08/02/04 (0)
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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