Actually, "its" is the possessive adjective, "it's" is a
contraction of "it
is" or "it has".
The "of it" bit would be included in "its".
Gregory
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stevertigo" <utilitymuffinresearch2(a)yahoo.com>
To: <wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:34 AM
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Apostrophe's
--- David Friedland <david(a)nohat.net> wrote:
(with it's shiny new logo)
- David [[User:Nohat]]
ITS shiny new logo. ITS ITS ITS.
Excuse me while I punish myself for my
apostrophe-itis breakout.
Actually you're correct -- there are *three forms :
Its, it's, (of it) and the contraction of it is -
it's.
I think
~S~
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