[Wikipedia-l] Apostrophe's

Fri Oct 17 17:15:01 UTC 2003

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 at yahoo.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:34 AM
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Apostrophe's

>
> --- David Friedland <david at 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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