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[Apple left little doubt that it’s poised to reveal the iPad 2 at an event in San Francisco to be held on Wednesday. It’s OK. Really, it is OK if you can confuse it’s, with an apostrophe between the t and s, and its, without any apostrophe at all.English grammar is tough, and its spelling doesn’t make things any easier. The video is very funny, and people who already enjoy grammar issues will appreciate it.

Definition of at its best in the Idioms Dictionary. That approach should work perfectly. It’s and its are among the most commonly confused words.They are pronounced the same, there’s a very small difference in how they’re written, and it’s also easy to mistake the contraction in it’s for a possessive. It’s been a true pleasure reading your blog on ‘its, it’s & its”.Talking about it, its’ becomes a real reference, though lacking a grammatical correctness, it’s possible to refer to it.Its”s is used correctly if you are contracting the sentence: “its’ is never correct.”.It’s’s is used correctly if you are contracting the sentence: “It’s is the contraction of “it is” and “it has”.Its’s is the form to use if you’re contracting: “Its is the form to use in all other instances when you want a form of i-t-s but you are not sure which one. )Shouldn’t the last sentence of the first paragraph read: “None of us *are* immune to these mistakes…”?The word “none” is singular.

I like to think of it as a contraction for “not one,” or to go even further, “not a single one”.The word “is” is being used after the word “us” though, meaning that it is a state of being verb to describe what the subject matter is doing. Oops! Most English speakers are comfortable with the difference between In its place is a general sense that the United States and its allies have limited leverage. They are too confusing. Meaning of ITS. its belonging to it: This is its handle. The lake’s beauty. Therefore the proper verb that should be used is “are”. Not that I’ve ever played Dungeons & Dragons. In fact, I just had to show my (know-it-all) 10-year-old daughter that “it’s” really is ONLY a contraction (by showing her what you wrote).Thanks for this clarification! Just type what you are looking for in the search box at top right. Yes, it would make sense to use a colon after “is correct in these sentences.” Although I always get it correct when I use its/it’s, I tend to worry that I am about to use the incorrect form for the situation.I know this was written a long while ago, but the advice is still sound. Read more about it's and its. Do you know the convention in British English? No wonder so many people have trouble with it.Thank you for posting that. This was very concise and helpful. I don’t have a definitive answer for you. Yet the simple its, has left me discombobulated, until today.I woke up in a picky mood this morning. Written with an apostrophe until the 1800s, when it was dropped presumably to make it more similar to hers, yours, theirs, etc. In that context, “its” is a possessive pronoun used as an adjective, or simply a possessive adjective. I’m sitting here writing an essay, and kept stumbling over this issue. Both options are equally wrong.The correct sentence would be, “Who remembers it raining in Miami in 1989?” If you are looking for the contraction of “it was”, then that would be ’twas. I cover many of the basic rules of grammar on this blog. “It” is an anomaly!Don’t you mean bugaboo? Despite your interesting examples, I never want to use the forms you covered. Thanks for your detailed comment. As it has had seven reprints already this shows how prevalent this mistake is.Hi, Karan. utilizes a convenient inconsistency for your argument. Nazi vs. Fascist: Is There Really A Difference? So in other words. Let’s look to the future! But “its” is not used in the same context. I guess it’s interchangeable. “You” is also singular but we use “are” with it and not “is”.I’m with Lecs and the Cap’n. I can’t see how your explanation could be any simpler to understand, and every other reference I check agrees implicitly. In fact, most of the time the state of being verb “is” is used in singular secondary subjects such as “it” “his” and “her.The subject isn’t “us”, it is the whole noun phrase “none of us”.

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