The crux of the biscuit

[piece-itpete]

I read that DQ, good gravy. I'm afraid my shirt pocket is sprouting protectors

Pete

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I read that DQ, good gravy. I'm afraid my shirt pocket is sprouting protectors

Pete

I hope you didn't dive into the comments. You'd be sprouting protectors from every orifice!

[piece-itpete]

I started but my face started breaking out in acne

Back in my machine maintenance days I wore them. My dad had a box full. I picked one for some out of state electric company, the logo was a hippo with a lightning bolt in its () mouth.

Loved that thing.

Pete

[one1]

It is mind over matter ,If you don't mind It don't Matter.

[d-ray657]

As I recall a further complication is that it is not mandatory to use the s-apostrophe when it follows a proper noun. For example, Jones's is a correct indication of possesion, but so is Jones'. But, when a proper noun ends with two ss, the apostrophe must follow the second s. Bess' shows possessive.

Now, I'm going to go put some tape on my horn-rimmed glasses.


Regards,

D-Ray

[HarmanKardon]

Yesterday I wrote at AK: "I appreciate it's correct spelling". Somebody wrote this is wrong, "its" is correct.

I asked my Oxford dictionary:

"Its" is a possessive pronoun, an attribute.

"It's" is a short form of "it is" or "it has".

Today AK member Tracy (and American living in Germany) remarked "its" in my case is correct.

[donquixote99]

Tracy's right!

[mpholland]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Iirc an apostrophe can show possessive if used after the s thusly: its'.

Or a contraction: it's.

And this applied to other words as well. However I have noticed spell check keeps warning me I'm wrong when I use it as a possessive like:

That is Bobabodes' whiskey, or, That is Tom Joads' 1911.

In both of those cases the names are underlined in red. Am I wrong?

Pete

Spell check seems to have issues with proper names as well as punctuation. It could be as much the name causing the red as the apostrophe (or a combination of both?).

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

Yesterday I wrote at AK: "I appreciate it's correct spelling". Somebody wrote this is wrong, "its" is correct.

I asked my Oxford dictionary:

"Its" is a possessive pronoun, an attribute.

"It's" is a short form of "it is" or "it has".

Today AK member Tracy (and American living in Germany) remarked "its" in my case is correct.

Using this example, what is the plural of "it" if not "its"?
I find the possessive tense vs contracted "is" very confusing.

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[mpholland]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Using this example, what is the plural of "it" if not "its"?
I find the possessive tense vs contracted "is" very confusing.

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This might help.

http://www.its-not-its.info/