I remembered this last night. It kept me awake. Briefly:
You don't need an apostrophe in a possessive pronoun: his, hers, theirs, its
You should have an apostrophe if it's is not possissive, but a contraction of it is: It is hard to remember this stuff = It's hard to remember this stuff.
Example: It's the dog's business if it wants to chase its tail.
OK, class dismissed. Don't push, remember your jackets, don't run to the door.
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Possissive (adj.)
third rate
unworthy
underserving
not fit for
pathetic
Use in a Sentence:
The possessive pronouns being quite possissive can have an apostrophe or possessions but not both!
AAAA! I misspelled another word! Let's see, I've screwed up pomegranate, woolly, and possessive (although that was more a finger slip than a brain fart). Any others I should know about?
Well, Honey, there is the article about the guy with the jerky mannerism. That should be tic, rather than tick.
Shoot.
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