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05-09-2014, 10:08 AM
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I read that DQ, good gravy. I'm afraid my shirt pocket is sprouting protectors
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05-09-2014, 10:16 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piece-itpete
I read that DQ, good gravy. I'm afraid my shirt pocket is sprouting protectors
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I hope you didn't dive into the comments. You'd be sprouting protectors from every orifice!
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05-09-2014, 10:25 AM
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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.
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05-09-2014, 10:36 AM
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05-09-2014, 11:16 AM
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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.
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05-09-2014, 11:35 AM
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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.
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05-09-2014, 11:44 AM
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Tracy's right!
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05-09-2014, 02:15 PM
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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?
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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?).
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05-09-2014, 02:21 PM
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Quote:
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.
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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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05-09-2014, 02:39 PM
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reflexionar
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Quote:
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/
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