On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:03:38AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > It's easy enough: "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is/was/has". > > The apostrophe denotes a missing letter or two, not possession. > > The confusion arises because, when used with a name, an apostrophe is > needed for a possessive. Of course, if you refer to everyone as "it", > the confusion disappears :)
The proper posessive analogy here would be “her” and, of course, “his”. I guess the only reason why I'm so observant of such things is because I had to learn it from scratch starting at about 12 at school. Native speakers do as they are used to from earliest childhood. It wasn't different with me and my native tongue. $deiety, when I look at the stuff that I wrote as a child… -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. Signatures are being revised, we apologise for any inconvenience.
