[pmmail-list] 2.20.2100

[Rod... Whitworth]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:28:04 -0500, Gene Gough wrote:

>Is it not possessive?
>
>
>On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:40:17 -0500 (EST), Bruce Francis wrote:
>
>=>Due to it's length

Butting in!

The only possesives that use an apostrophe are words that are not pronouns.

An apostrophe <ALWAYS> denotes a missing letter or letters.

So why do we use it for John's horse?

Because the old English did not have a possesive form. The words used were 
"John, his horse" which mutated over time to John's horse as "is not" went to 
isn't and "it is" became it's.

As the original message said try replacing ALL uses of "it's" with "it is" and 
see if it works. If not use " its" instead. Possesive pronouns exist without 
help. It is not "hi's" but "his" and the money is not "her's" but "hers" and so 
it's never right to use its apostrophe in the possesive!

~|^

See what you get for provoking an old scholar of the language who whilst being a 
pedant attempts to hide it due to his lousy typing skills which may bring the 
fatal slip.

Best regards,
Rod.

>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?




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