Yet Another Ending

3/10 on the flounceometer

 

Does it need it's batteries changed?

 

It certainly needs its apostrophes looked at.

 

Are you sure? Using "it's" in the possessive sense - the batteries are the
flounceometer's (same here).

Why is that incorrect?

 

dwb wrote

Have you not heard of solar power? Fucking planet killer.

 

The possessive is "its", and the contraction of "it is" is "it's" - I
thought everybody understood that. How else would you tell them apart?
IIRC the possessive "'s" was originally a contraction of "has".

 

Ah, the old it/it's chestnut.

It's is a contraction of "it is".

Its is a possessive adjective in its own right and therefore does not
need an apostrophe.

I don't know why, but it is a basic rule of written English.

http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/

 

Pip secured a place in history by writing:

?

 

Why don't you post that question to
alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe. They're the experts.

 

Possessive pronoun, ITYF.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Pronoun, iirc. And I probably don't, being too engaged with looking up
the teacher's skirt at the time.

--

Dave

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(The Older Gentleman) struggled
to ejaculate:

I fucking typed pronoun. No such animal as a possessive adjective, is
there? FFS. I blame the Sudafed auto-translating into gibberish,
somewhere between my snot-filled head and shaking fingers.

Arse.

 

still?

get yourself to the quacks.

--
Adie
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Sheer poetry. No, seriously. I'd just been reading this:

http://www.bartleby.com/135/1.html

and it seemed like more of the same.

 

Indeed. He can't keep ducking it.

 

hardly worth a sigh - now I know so won't need to ask again.

 

Been. Common cold, innit.

The irritation in the right eye may not be however, so a repeat visit
tomorrow is on the cards.

Argh.

 

'S drivin' me quackers, so it is.

 

Canard is it?

 

Best get mallard on hot whiskies, then.